Was blanco lying when she testified with this statement?
"The Democratic governor told a U.S. House committee investigating the government's response to the hurricane that mandatory evacuations were issued over two days before the hurricane struck so people in the lowest-lying parishes would avoid gridlock that could trap them in the path of the hurricane."
According to everything I have ever seen it would appear that she was fibbing. But we live in an age were our leaders have the temerity to split hairs so fine as to say things like "it depends on what your definition of is is."
If she ordered the evacuation of New Orleans that early that is news to me. It is also 24 hours less than the emergency plan called for.