Bush advisor to investigate Bush administration response
Tags: george bush, katrina commission, frances townsendDespite the Banana Republicesque appearance of the move, the Bush administration has selected his homeland security advisor, Fran Townsend, to lead in internal probe into the federal response to Katrina, Reuters says.
…A separate congressional inquiry will also investigate what went wrong with the federal response. But Bush so far has refused to back calls from Democrats for an independent commission to look at the disaster response.
"The president said he wanted to hold people accountable. This is one of the many ways in which he will do that," the [spokesman Trent Duffy] said.
