If you have any prloblems with their timeline I think you could send the correction to Fact Check. They usually print out corrections as they come along. They just deal with facts most of the the time as they can get them. So I think if we sent them some new facts or corrected ones they will reprint it.
True..but you're going to have to source it.
The claim that "the President declared the area a national disaster area before the state of Louisiana did" appears to be based on an erroneous statement made by an unnamed Bush administration official, as reported in the Washington Post (emphasis ours):
Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday [2 August], the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.
The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.
A senior administration official said that Bush has clear legal authority to federalize National Guard units to quell civil disturbances under the Insurrection Act and will continue to try to unify the chains of command that are split among the president, the Louisiana governor and the New Orleans mayor.
Louisiana did not reach out to a multi-state mutual aid compact for assistance until Wednesday [31 August], three state and federal officials said. As of Saturday, Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency, the senior Bush official said.
Fairly obvious they did not. The spin on this is all Bush bashing. The constant harping on Bush "saying only 113 words" etc. Meanwhile NO fact about what Nagin and Blanco are up to at that time. Given their claims to have "researched" the "Facts" yet over looked dozens of published items I know about would indicated either gross incompetence or deliberate falsehoods. Sorry they are the once claiming to be "fact checking" when they fail to do an even marginally balanced job, one has ever right to doubt the veracity of ALL their claims.