USNews.com: Washington Whispers (9/26/05)

USNews.com: Washington Whispers (9/26/05): "Did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have a premonition about hurricane season? Turns out that some two weeks before Katrina hit the Gulf, he signed a 'severe weather execution order' that let the Northern Command dispatch officials to hurricane sites on its own, without Washington's OK. Officials report that the order helped speed the military response."