[SheetWise]

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New Orleans fell into a state of anarchy. Plenty of federal laws were being violated.

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State of Anarchy? Unless it spills over the borders, that's the Governors call. Laws being violated? Possibly. That would have justified sending in the FBI.

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Just the fact of the disaster of this magnitude gave the President power to dispatch relief.

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Under what authority?

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Why do we have a national HomeLand Security department if you think everything is run by and directed by the individual States?

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My point exactly -- it has nothing to do with what I think. It has to do with established procedure and the law.