"Everyone Tells Us To Blame Someone Else"

Reporter finds that the governor of Texas Rick Perry is just a helpless and inneffectual bystander with no authority when questioned about Ike's fatality count.
According to Perry local authorities push him around on the ground while the feds control the airspace.
There is a concerted effort to keep the true nature of what happened away from the public's eyes, most probably as CYA damage control.