There is a difference between saying that the "Red Cross is not the best place to send money if you want to help Katrina victims" and "slamming the Red Cross."

It is false to say that no one who was affected by 9/11 needed help after the Red Cross stopped helping the victims. Lots of people needed help, many still do. It is true that none of them needed the type of help the Red Cross is willing or able to provide. Rather than give the money to counselling groups, rebuilding funds, merchants who lost their livelihoods, workers who lost their jobs or who witnesses who suffered PTSD or to the first responders who later experienced medical problems from breathing the debris and bodies, they decided it would be better to put the money in their general fund. Seems reasonable, but they advertised asking for funds to help 9/11 victims, I saw the ads. They didn't say the money might be used for CPR training or to pay executive salaries.

If you send money to the Red Cross now, it is likely that some or all of the funds will be diverted. If you support the other goals of the Red Cross that might not be so bad. But if you specifically want to help Katrina victims, it is certainly NOT the best place to send your money.