This statement doesn't authorize any action.Blind?
The declaration of a state of emergency [text] issued by Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Friday and set to continue for at least a month does, however, give officials power to suspend civil liberties in the process of restoring order, and the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act of 1993 gives the governor and heads of parishes power to commandeer property.I think that text is posted above too, previously, like, redundantly ...
That statement was in a clarification issued four days later. Why was a clarification needed if everyone understood the original?
And if everyone understood they were authorized to take action, why were they still consulting lawyers when Bush called?