LIVE Hearing on Katrina (Michael Brown on hotseat)

C-Span ^ | 09/27/05 | SE Mom

[SE Mom]

Hearings beginning now on C-Span- Michael Brown will be grilled.

Have at it, folks:)

[AGreatPer]

And now we know why there was such wide spread looting.

[cgk]

I and probably many others sent him the info about what Tony Snow is breaking - he may be getting ready for a source...

[FreedomCalls]

I thought New Orleans was excluded from the emergency declaration in question because that particular declaration was to declare an emergency in counties set up to receive NO evacuees? There were other declarations in place for the areas expected to be hit by the hurricane. This one was for the areas affected by the problems in setting up for and sheltering evacuees. Am I wrong or does Brown not realize this?

[MoefromMs]

George County. they didn't get here for two weeks.

[SE Mom]

Perhaps that can be arranged- Nagin served as mayor of NOLA from an undisclosed location in Texas (til Rita came).

[CedarDave]

If you don't go on offense right out of the gate, the media fills the vacuum with their version of events, and that's what sticks in most people's mind.

Agree. That (and the bias of the MSM) is why the Pubbies always get the short end of the stick. They need to be on the attack proactively ahead of the predictable ankle-biting by the Rats and their enablers in the media. But they never learn...(sigh)

[RummyChick]

HOLY SH&T 80 out of 500?????????? My god, Katrina is going to out the horrible corruption. Will Mary L and her brother remain unscathed?

[Howlin]

FEMA doesn't have ANYTHING to do with anything BEFORE the storm. Period.

[Guenevere]

..and where in Mississippi are you from....simple question.

[mewzilla]

From this link:

In addition to holding regular briefings with emergency management officials in the affected states, FEMA reported the following activities, as of 10 a.m. today, as part of the ongoing federal response. FEMA’s emergency teams and resources are being deployed and configured for coordinated response to Hurricane Katrina. This includes pre-staging critical commodities such as ice, water, meals, and tarps in various strategic locations to be made available to residents of affected areas... FEMA’s Hurricane Liaison Team is onsite and working closely with the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla. FEMA’s National Response Coordination Center and Regional Response Coordination Centers in Atlanta, Ga., and Denton, Texas, are operating around the clock, coordinating the prepositioning of assets and responding to state requests for assistance. FEMA has deployed a National Emergency Response Team to Louisiana with a coordination cell positioned at the State Emergency Operations Center in Baton Rouge to facilitate state requests for assistance. In addition, four Advance Emergency Response Teams have been deployed to locations in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The teams include federal liaisons who work directly within county emergency operations centers to respond to critical needs as they are identified by local officials and prioritized by the state. Rapid Needs Assessment teams have been prestaged in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Nine Urban Search and Rescue task forces and incident support teams have been deployed. The task forces are from Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Texas, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, and Missouri. Thirty-one teams from the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) have been deployed to staging areas in Anniston, Ala., Memphis, Tenn., Houston, Dallas, and New Orleans, including 23 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams. The teams bring truckloads of medical equipment and supplies with them and are trained to handle trauma, pediatrics, surgery and mental health problems. Two Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams are also included as part of NDMS assets deployed, which are able to support and rescue pets, and provide any needed veterinary medical care for rescue dogs. Voluntary agencies, important partners in disasters, are prepared to augment local government services with shelters, mobile feeding units, water and clean-up supplies. FEMA has 500 trucks of ice, 500 trucks of water and 350 trucks of meals ready to eat (MREs) available for distribution over the next 10 days.

[cgk]

BUMP!

[Republic]

Tony Snow: FBI investigating 500 NOLA cop names, finding only 80 exist.

Tony promises more on this bombshell.

"Holy crow. Oh, sure, let's pour even more taxpayers' money down this 'Rat hole."

EXACTLY!

If our money is not OVERSEEN and ACCOUNTED FOR by a panel assigned by the federal government, preferably by our President, a panel that consists of ZERO LA DEMOCRATS and REPUBLICANS but rather of people who are outside the political realm, I will be howling big time, railing against such a misuse of OUR hard earned money.

[dirtboy]

http://www.ncpc.org/ncpc/ncpc/?pg=2088-9526

Mayor Marc Morial appointed Superintendent Richard J. Pennington to lead the crime reduction efforts in New Orleans in October 1994. Within five months and with the input and active support of the mayor, Pennington launched a massive campaign to fight corruption within the department, including creating a new Public Integrity Division (PID), based separately from police headquarters, whose staff includes FBI personnel.

The mayor and superintendent worked together to raise officers' salaries and hire, within 18 months, some 500 new recruits. Pennington's Plan for Dramatically Reducing Crime in New Orleans stressed the accountability of his officers along with the importance of community policing and the need to improve responses to quality-of-life issues within the city. In 1998, 50 percent of voters gave the police a positive rating in the UNO quality-of-life survey. Three elements that exemplify the approaches used to successfully reduce crime in "the crescent city" are listed below.

[advance_copy]

Blanco wants control of that money; and Bush is a fool if he gives her power over it. In fact, nobody in LA should be in charge of anything.

Blanco wants 'Family Recovery Corps' to get families back to La.
9/24/2005, 7:56 p.m. CT
By DOUG SIMPSON
The Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Saturday proposed creating a nonprofit group, funded with nearly $2 billion in federal money, that would provide services to evacuated Louisiana residents, much as refugees are settled in this country after fleeing political persecution overseas.

The Family Recovery Corps would rely almost entirely on federal money, plus some donations, Blanco aides said. It was unclear who would run the noprofit, which relief groups and government agencies would be involved and how contracts with the relief groups would be arranged.

[cgk]

placemark

[Mo1]

He said NO and two other parishes right? I didn't hear, were they the two adjacent parishes to NO, thus blocking entry and exit from the city?

Yes .. there were 2 other Parishes .. but the phone rang and I didn't hear which ones

[Howlin]

I'm reposting this from a thread earlier this morning:

My post:

I was over at The Soccer Dome for a big party last night and I can tell you that to a person -- even the ones who I personally know are flaming liberals and voted for Kerry (a couple in MY family) -- all the people there believe this is an absolute travesty and that Bush -- yes, Bush -- is being blamed for something that was beyond his control.

People are seeing this for what it is -- pandering and whining -- and some of them believe that people want a class and race war. I was kind of surprised; I mean, we here all feel like this is a witch hunt, but people in real life feel the same way. They were actually laughing at the "instant gratification" crowd and a lot of them were infuriated that years and years of successful hurricanes and disaster responses seem to have been completely ignored for these people's agendas.

There is going to be SUCH a backlash; and at the head of the list is the press.

I left smiling.

[MoefromMs]

Is it Haley Barbour's fault that half the MS national guard is in Iraq?

Stop blaming FEMA

I guess I can blame whomever I choose, too.

[longtermmemmory]

Seems to me that Brown is a man with nothing to loose. His national public service career is done. I saw his opening statement and thought it was bold to put the blame square on Blanco and Nagin. Especially with Blanco asking for 32 BILLION(!) to be managed by her!

I hope he keeps attacking.

I particularly liked his attack on Time magazines sloppyness.

Seriously they gave him 45 MINUTES to respond to a hit piece! Clearly time specificaly did NOT want a response.
(s)We called Mr. Brown yesterday at 3am and he was unavailable for comment. Turns out he was (gasp!) sleeping!(/s)

[Howlin]

Yes, that's her latest scam to try to maintain control.