CYA : http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9189916
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Posted on 09/04/2005 11:39:17 PM PDT by smoothsailing
State and local officials did not inform top federal officials early on of the deaths and lack of food among hurricane victims in the Superdome or convention center, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday.
Mr. Chertoff said neither he nor Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown was told of the deteriorating situation in New Orleans until Thursday night.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
---Apparently Chertov does not have a radio, television, or computer.---
So, he's supposed to watch these things on CNN and FOX and call up the local authorities and see if he can wheedle the information out of them, like reluctant children? Or should he just send out resources following Geraldo's directions?
Dr. Kevin Stephens
Boardmember
911nola.org
KEVIN U. STEPHENS, Sr, MD, JD
Kevin U. Stephens, is a board certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist who has been in private practice in New Orleans East for over 14 years. He is currently serving as the Health Director for the City of New Orleans. He has served previously as the Women's Health Medical Director for the Office of Public Health in the Department of Health and Hospitals for the State of Louisiana.
Dr. Stephens has been serving as Health Director for the City of New Orleans since 2002. He is responsible for six divisions, thirty programs and 400 over employees. The programs include operation of nine clinics, nutritional services, immunization services, HIV/AIDS prevention and care, lead poisoning prevention and Emergency Medical Services. His accomplishments during this time, includes managing over twenty million dollars in grants for the city.
He has also served as the Medical Director of Great Expectations Foundation, Inc., and was one of the original grant authors for this grant. He is presently on the clinical faculty of Xavier University, Dillard University, LSU Medical School and Tulane Medical School. Dr. Stephens is a member of the Bar in Louisiana and has worked with as a consultant to many local, state and federal agencies and organizations. He has given many lectures across the country and is committed to community education about medical issues.
Brian Williams was. He spent the hurricane inside the Superdome. I remember a reporter also reporting from outside the dome on Tuesday who was remarking on how bad the conditions were.
Susan Collins is in charge of the Homeland Security Committee in the Senate? Is that based on qualification, or seniority?
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
This is why they call it a break down in communication.
Thugs? Let's just call them bad guys.....
The media got spooked and couldn't report from inside the Superdome?
So then we had a media BLACK OUT unitl GERALDO airlifted himself into NO, right before the military moved in to take over?
Dr. Kevin Stephens Sr., in charge of the special needs shelter at the dome, described the Superdome and a nearby arena as a health department's nightmare.
``These conditions are atrocious,'' he said. ``We'll take trucks, planes, boats, anything else -- I have to get these people out of here.''
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I have to get these people out of here......
because they are TRASHING THE PLACE!
Have they ever heard of picking up their own damn TRASH?! Pouring dirty water in the back of the toilet would have made them flush. No one else had electricity in other areas either, DOCTOR but they weren't shooting, stabbing, raping or stealing.
As you say, this, if used, is an appallingly stupid excuse for not knowing what was happening.
Well, precisely, there were many reporters outside the dome and reporting on Tueday.
Earth to Arkie2: the convention center and the Superdome are two different buildings.
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"This is clearly something that was disturbing. It was disturbing to me when I learned about it, which came as a surprise. You know, the very day that this emerged in the press,I was on a video conference with all the officials, including state and local officials. And nobody, none of the state and local officials or anybody else was talking about a convention center," Mr. Chertoff told CNN.
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DHS and FEMA should not have to spend valuable time watching television for information when there is work to be done - especially when the top officials are in contact via video conference. Those "officials" should be the official source of information - not MSM.
James Lee Witt has been "advising" Blank-O. If I was a paranoid, tin-foil-hat-wearing nut I might be having "hanging chad" flashbacks about now.
If you would pay attention, you'd know that those shelters were NOT his responsibility for the first 3 to 5 days.
And you can't schedule drops of food and water at places that you aren't advised of.
The context in which I used those terms is what makes them, shall we say, awkward.
As far as my earlier use of the term 'thugs', I'll concede I was premature to use that description, but, it looks like it turned out to be accurate..........unless AP comes up with a 5th version.
And the people who ended up at the Convention Center were the people who LEFT the SuperDome when they found out the buses were going to Houston.
LA Times reporting there were 10 deaths at the Superdome.
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