Fours years since the nation was attacked and the government needed to respond to the 9/11 disaster, the President apparently hasn't figured out how the whole system works:

As he said yesterday announcing his personal investigation into the Katrina recovery debacle:

"It's very important for us to understand the relationship between the federal government, the state government, and the local government when it comes to a major catastrophe,"  Bush said. 

Not only would one presume that he would have a grip on this subject in the fifth year of his presidency, but, just nine months ago, his buddy Tom Ridge, issued a document that laid all this out called the National Response Plan. 

Ridge had this to say when he announced the Plan on January 6, 2005:

"Basically, the National Response Plan establishes a brand new way of doing business.  It's an all-hazard, multi-disciplined, cross-jurisdictional way of standardized, predictable practices and procedures for federal governments to work with the state and the local and tribal governments in the private sector to protect the nation... The plan is a comprehensive roadmap for everyone to follow, not only to react to terrorist attacks, I reiterate, but prevent them from happening in the first place...  It gets everyone involved in response and recovery, and it gets them all involved on the same page, whether that page covers a terrorism event, a tornado, or a myriad of events in between."

Lo and behold, on page 8 of the plan, what do we find but a chapter on "Roles and Responsibilities" of the different levels of government.  

http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NRPbaseplan.pdf

Instead of leading an investigation, perhaps Bush should get a copy of the Plan  from his old buddy Tom Ridge and read it. 

See also, related posts at: Bush Blames Locals, Bush Blames Locals Part Two, and FEMA Urged First Responders Not to Help.