The AP Katrina Briefing Story - RatherGate Connection

WizBang ^ | Mar 02. 2006

[Jay Howard Smith]

March 02, 2006 The AP Katrina Briefing Story - Rathergate Connection

Yesterday, in looking at the AP piece on the Bush Katrina briefings (Rewriting Katrina History - AP Style), I had this to stay about the AP's work:

...[I]t has all the hallmarks of the Bush Air National Guard story on 60 Minutes II by Dan Rather and Mary Mapes. The AP has dressed up mundane video to try and prove that President Bush (and everyone else) knew that the levees in New Orleans were going to breech. The problem is the evidence they present in their story to make that point does nothing of the sort.

It turns out that there's much more to that analogy than even I knew at the time. Have a look at the byline to the AP story:

By MARGARET EBRAHIM and JOHN SOLOMON

WASHINGTON (AP) - In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Here's an interesting detail on someone who certainly looks like one of the story authors from the French-American Foundation's membership roles:

Margaret Ebrahim (2003) Producer CBS News, 60 Minutes II

[ncountylee]

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[PeteB570]

Too bad far too many mind numbed robots bow down before the alter of MSM.

[Barte45]

This tape does nothing to blame Bush. If anything it exonerates him. This tape damns Mike Brown, because the government said it was ready to give FEMA all the help necessary. It was the job of the state governments to cover the damage done. Then, IF NECESSARY, the federal government would intervene.