NPR interview with Homeland Security head Chertoff

If you didn't hear NPR host Robert Siegel's inverview with Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff on yesterday's "All Things Considered," you can listen to it here. In it, Siegel asks about the nightmarish conditions at the convention center (>1000 with no food, water; rapes, deaths, disease, human waste everywhere). Chertoff tries to talk about the Superdome. Siegel points out he was asking about the convention center, not the superdome. Chertoff says that in situations like this, there are a lot of rumors. Siegel says — not rumors, an NPR reporter, who has been there all day, is on the line with producers as they speak. And it's 2000 people. Chertoff blathers. Later, Chertoff's assistant phones NPR back and told them — you were right. Link