Posted on 11/30/2005 3:15:02 AM PST by Ellesu
As part of its ongoing investigation into the nation’s response to Hurricane Katrina, a Senate investigatory committee has delivered a massive records request to the Orleans Levee Board that covers everything from transcripts of meetings dating back to 1989 to all e-mails and written communications sent in the days before and after the storm struck on Aug. 29.
The committee included a request to see all agreements between the Levee Board and the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that oversees levee design and construction in the New Orleans area. The Corps is under heavy criticism for its design of canal floodwalls that failed during and after Katrina.
Staff members from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs also have held lengthy face-to-face interviews with top agency administrators, including a four-hour session on Tuesday with former board Chairman Jim Huey, who resigned under fire last month after a 10-year tenure.
The committee’s records request to the Levee Board comes on the heels of separate inquiries sent last month to Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who were asked for a detailed accounting of their response to the hurricane.
Among other agencies that the Senate committee has requested documents from are the Army Corps, the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness, the Coast Guard, and the mayors of Mobile, Ala.; and Biloxi and Gulfport in Mississippi.
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levee board ping
I thought each levee had its own board?
My guess is that they will say all those records were lost in the flood.
If they're serious, that is.
I just hope it is not one of those window dressing investigations cause it is well known here in the NO area that many thousands of dollars have been stolen with these boards.
Don't ask, don't tell.
Bingo!!!!!!!!!!
Check Sandy Burgler's pants.
"I think the Senate, then, needs to send out more subpoeanae.
"If they're serious, that is."
It's all about a group of crooks in Washington investigating another group of crooks in Louisiana.
It's almost too funny.
As part of its ongoing investigation into the nation’s response to Hurricane Katrina, a Senate investigatory committee has delivered a massive records request to the Orleans Levee Board that covers everything from transcripts of meetings dating back to 1989 to all e-mails and written communications sent in the days before and after the storm struck on Aug. 29.
----Here come the excuses. They were lost, stolen, misplaced or they will doctor them up. Asking these people for ANY paperwork that will prove them wrong is just plain stupid. You have one covering the other ones back and they have more than proven they cannot be trusted so this, like all the other investigating is a waste of time. They will have an excuse for everything .
Holy bonfires, Batman, do you suppose they hired one of those mobile shredding companies?
I fully expect the national television media to expose the thievery and graft by the democrats in NO every night for the next 6 months, and for newspapers to outline on the front pages the despicable culpability of the eco-fascists and the puppet Marxist judge as accessories in the deaths of hundreds of NO citizens.
(Bring on the chirping crickets)
Congress is not the best body to use to ferret out corruption. The Levee Board in New Orleans has been a cash cow for generations of politicians, local, state and federal.
If any investigation digs too deep it will find out who the specific people were who profited. This will never be made public. Politicians protect each other against the taxpayer who is fair game.
After all, the American public does not seem to care how much they are taxed. And a large percentage could not name three politicians.
Don't look for too much to come of this "investigation."
This is soooooooooo nice. This investigation will roll along and the ratmedia will ignore it, telling the NOLA rats "Don't worry we'll make it go away". Hee hee hee!
That's the same line they fed frenchie about the Swiftees.
This investigation will drag on until the dumb rats forget it and convince themselves it will go nowhere then BANG!
( add the sound of a snapping rat trap here)!
What evidence is there that the records survived the flooding?
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