The reason Bush is blamed for Abu Gharaib is because guidance came from the White House that torture was authorized in order to gain intelligence. Very differe

The reason Bush is blamed for Abu Gharaib is because guidance came from the White House that torture was authorized in order to gain intelligence. Very different than if some subordinates tortured people of their own accord. Healthcare.gov is not just a damned website. The backend has to integrate with the IRS, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, private insurance companies, and the various state exchanges. No you could not have assembled a team of 10 developers in 25% of the time for 1% of the cost. No offense but you clearly are not familiar with any of the details of why healthcare.gov failed. Requirements came in so late that development didn't start until March, giving them at the most, 7 months of time to develop this thing. So you're saying that a team of 10 could've gotten this thing built in less than 2 months? And that this fictional team could've gotten away with 1 week of full integration testing? The government integrators (CMS) didn't make that full test happen until 1 week before launch. I agree that there is no excuse for this level of incompetence, but a lot of that incompetence is on the part of the customer. An ill-prepared group was given systems integration responsibilities, requirements came in very late and they were changing right up to release, not enough time was allocated to integration testing, and no one sounded the alarm that this was going to be a disaster. Now maybe the president knew, maybe he didn't. The responsibility for something like this would've fallen on Kathleen Sebelius. Did she know the project was off the rails? Did she inform the White House? If she didn't know, she didn't do her job, if she did know and didn't sound the alarm, she didn't do her job. The only scenario where she is not to blame is if she sounded the alarm to the president, and the president told her to push ahead. So far there has been no indication that this was the case.