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I wonder if you remember these moments on Monday, August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina began to batter the coastline down on the Gulf of Mexico. On that day, brigadier general, Matthew Broderick was on duty at the Homeland Security Operations Center which is responsible for assessing really any threat of any kind to national security, whether it’s terrorism or natural disaster, and then relaying it to the White House at the end of the day. And as reports of flooding in New Orleans began to arrive at his office throughout the day, Broderick and his team, as you might expect, were monitoring the situation closely. But reports were contradictory. So later in the day, one FEMA report stated that 75% of the city was then under water. But at ten-thirty that night, as they turned on the TV, one broadcast showed people having a hurricane party in the French Quarter. Reports were contradictory. And at that point, Broderick made a fateful decision. He went home. He looked at all the contradictory reports and concluded that he had nothing definite to relay to the White House and they sure seemed like they were having a good time on the news after all, and so he went home. His judgment was badly flawed with, as we all know now, disastrous consequences.
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