It turned out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated, ... The thing that changed this was not Katrina itself, the thing that was the catastrophic event was the failure of the levee.

We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it was an analytic judgement by the intelligence community that that meant the Library Tower.

If it were that simple, it would have been easier. There were numerous reports about the levees. Most of them were inconsistent.

I haven't presumed that there needs to be a revision of the Stafford or Insurrection Act,

the official primarily responsible for advising and assisting the President in the coordination of domestic incident management activities of all departments and agencies in the event of a terrorist threat, and during and in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, major disasters, or other emergencies, within the United States.

It turns out we were all wrong, we had not adequately anticipated,