Posted on 09/08/2005 6:57:07 PM PDT by sissyjane
Edited on 09/08/2005 11:37:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
>> WHITE HOUSE MULLED SEIZING RELIEF MISSION // Invoke the Insurrection Act? Bush's senior advisers debated last week whether the president should seize control of the chaotic hurricane relief mission from the governor so that active-duty combat troops could be sent to enforce order... Developing
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Political Issues Snarled Plans for Troop Aid
"WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - As New Orleans descended into chaos last week and Louisiana's governor asked for 40,000 soldiers, President Bush's senior advisers debated whether the president should speed the arrival of active-duty troops by seizing control of the hurricane relief mission from the governor.
For reasons of practicality and politics, officials at the Justice Department and Pentagon, and then at the White House, decided not to urge Mr. Bush to take command of the effort.
Instead, the Washington officials decided to rely on the growing number of National Guard personnel flowing into Louisiana, who were under Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's control. The debate was triggered as officials began to realize that Hurricane Katrina exposed a critical flaw in the national disaster response plans created after the Sept. 11 attacks. According to the administration's senior homeland security officials, the hurricane showed the failure of their plan to recognize that local police, fire and medical personnel might be incapacitated and unable to act quickly until reinforcements arrive on the scene..."
".. To seize control of the mission, Mr. Bush would have had to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows the president in times of unrest to command active-duty forces into the states to perform law enforcement duties. But decision makers in Washington felt certain that Governor Blanco would have resisted surrendering control of the military relief mission as Bush Administration officials believe would have been required to deploy active-duty combat forces before law and order had been re-established. While troops can conduct relief missions without the legal authority of the Insurrection Act, Pentagon and military officials say that no active-duty forces could have been sent into the chaos of New Orleans on Wednesday or Thursday without confronting law-and-order challenges......."
The info came from my governmental relations unit in an open communication to employees, and they don't joke around or engage in spreading idle rumors.
If anything, they tend to be overly tight-lipped.
They already have their Impeachment documents ready, this would have become their causis belli(sp?).
I hope these DUmmies keep it up, this is just like the Wellstone Memorial on steroids, LMAO.
And let me just add, when the Democrats compare how this played out and ask the question "What would happen in a terrorist attack?"...they are comparing apples to oranges.
In a terrorist attack, the troops could immediately be Federalized and we wouldn't be dealing with Posse Comitatus.
Appears to me that the media frenzy ,and dem mouthpieces, know that one , or more of theirs were in the wrong, and tried the diversion technique of blaming someone else.
Also Broomhilda is running high level interference with a request for an independent council, so this never sees the light of day, and causes the average person to see what really happens when things are turned over to those who only look out for the common good, instead of taking care of the immediate need
Yeah, we kind of already figured that out Drudge. Nice you realized it though.
Maybe not, but when a governing authority in the United States (the city and state here) make no attempt to protect the civil and constitutional rights of American citizens, do the Feds have the authority to step in to insure that those rights sre protected?
"They wanted to take over my National Guard," Blanco said in an interview. "A governor has to have the final say on what's going to happen."
What an idiot!! Does she claim ownership of the corpses too?
Many thanks. Does anglian know this person? It appears to have been forwarded to him somehow.
The President would have to invoke the insurrection act to do the necessary work immediately.
Blanco wanted to keep local control and bungled the the evacuation and relief. Her hope is that MSM and Dem spin will focus the blame on Bush and Fema and keep her out of the Center Stage Spotlight.
First, he made the request on Saturday that all peoples be moved out of the area. This was met with no response on the State level. Second, it is not for him to 'ask' as it is left to the State to request help. None was requested when it should have been. It was flat out ignored when it was there for the asking.
Before the fact, in my view, if Bush had the assets to deploy quickly enough, comandeered or otherwise, to get more folks out, he should have moved
Let me ask you this. Taking out the infirm, when, exactly, do you start laying blame on the citizens for not taking care of themselves?
So, am I mistaken that even this is considered a slam at the President???
Interesting that the Feds have an "in" to the interstate compacts for National Guard.
"I need everything you have got," Governor Blanco said she told Mr. Bush last Tuesday, when New Orleans flooded. In an interview, she acknowledged that she did not specify what sorts of soldiers. "Nobody told me that I had to request that. I thought that I had requested everything they had," she said. "We were living in a war zone by then."NYTimes is amazing. "illustrated her stance?" Absolutely not, it disproves the earlier comment she was ignorant of the laws.The governor illustrated her stance when, overnight Friday, she rejected a more modest proposal for a hybrid command structure in which both the Guard and active-duty troops would be under the command of an active-duty, three-star general - but only after he had been sworn into the Louisiana Guard.
"Illustrated" - The article becomes a puff piece for her.
Where was the Louisiana Nat'l Guard?
Not a chance! Look at what the MSM is trying to do at every turn already! They don't want him to look like a "HERO" on anything, all they want is him gone no matter what.
I have information that the National Guard was stopped outside Lousiana for eight hours while the White House attorney's negotiated with Blanco's attorneys over who would be in charge.
I was thinking the same thing....that being said, if you're not going to do something (Blanco) then get out of the way for someone who CAN!!! (Bush)
I agree, they seem almost gleeful there's 25,000 body bags.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess they're going to be dissappointed, thankfully.
President Bush can't win with the moonbats and their buds in the media. He would either have been too quick on the trigger or too slow. He would have sent either too many troops or not enough. He would have either gone too early to view the damage or too late.
If whatever you do is going to displease the jerks, why try to please them?
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