Even Colonels in charge of the Louisiana National Guard were corrupt! THis is beyond belief.
But this article goes a loooong way in explaining why Blanco was so resistant to federalizing the operation and why Landrieu and Blanco hate FEMA and blame them for EVERYTHING.
FEMA was demanding that over $30M be returned to the feds because of mismanagement and outright fraud!
This needs to be sent to Tony Snow, Brit Hume and Rush Limbaugh.
Ooops! Sorry I got carried away- I know better than to c/p from an Los Angeles Times article..
Really though- this is a MUST read article...
Yes it does. She also gave the reason why she didn't want to federalize the effort. She said something to the effect that 'if it was turned over to the FEDs they would blame us if it went wrong'.
That statement didn't make much sense at the time. But it does now.