New Orleans Police superintendant step down; Nagin sings his praises; media looks for Moose

Anyone want to guess how many indictments we see because of Hurricane Katrina?

Zero. Politicians stick together, regardless of which party they are affilitated with. A few low level types will have their heads roll and then it will all be over.

381 posted on 09/27/2005 1:44:28 PM PDT by hardworking

I'd forgotton about that doll paraded by the terrorists as a 'hostage, that the MSM accepted as true. LOL!

382 posted on 09/27/2005 1:44:41 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Barbour/Honore in '08)

Wow! Did not know about Campbell Brown's Dad being jailed. Does anyone know more about the looting done by NOPD--saw a report on CNN about it and it was disgusting. Compass was lying his second syllable off trying to explain it away.

It is so sickening to see how the corruption has permeated NO--just like the fetid flood waters. Maybe with enough light shown in the darkness the roaches will be exposed and flushed out!

383 posted on 09/27/2005 1:45:14 PM PDT by milagro

Has anyone besides Tony Snow reported on this yet?

384 posted on 09/27/2005 1:45:16 PM PDT by Primetimedonna

To: Conservababe

IN the Big Easy, I guess one "reigns" with one's hands on the "reins"! ;-P

385 posted on 09/27/2005 1:45:33 PM PDT by MortMan (Mostly Harmless)

Katrina is German and means "Pure".

The whole thing is a white supremacist conspiracy. The scientists that seeded the clouds are German too, by the way.

386 posted on 09/27/2005 1:45:36 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican

NOLA.com has a report that La just RETURNED $350 million of FEMA funds they'd just gotten, saying they couldn't use it..WETF???

387 posted on 09/27/2005 1:46:16 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)

Perhaps the thugs and the looters in NO after the storm hit were...cops in their civies?

388 posted on 09/27/2005 1:46:18 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican

All I can say is that time will tell.

389 posted on 09/27/2005 1:46:24 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I jez calls it az I see it.)

450 cops salary is a huge chunk of change....who was getting the money.

Wonder if that money is traceable to the DNC?

390 posted on 09/27/2005 1:46:49 PM PDT by Terabitten (God grant me the strength to live a life worthy of those who have gone before me.)

My two cents...Nagin was a useful idiot and was controlled by handlers...after Prez Bush showed up...he knew he was in way over his head...

391 posted on 09/27/2005 1:47:06 PM PDT by Getsmart64

It's getting surreal. It's as though there is two realities in the news world today.

Iraq didn't provide the proof to you?

392 posted on 09/27/2005 1:47:22 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)

I wonder how many other fake voters they have on the rools across the state collecting money?

Not a DIME should got to any LA official. I don't trust any of them. Rep or Dem.

393 posted on 09/27/2005 1:48:00 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Barbour/Honore in '08)

Who is going to investigate this? MSM is not going to.. they would have more than egg on their face.

394 posted on 09/27/2005 1:48:52 PM PDT by JFC (Texan , GOP, and I support my President and our Troops.)

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_27.html#082998

La. gives back much of FEMA money

Health officials used only about $10 million

By Laura Maggi
Capital bureau

BATON ROUGE - The Department of Health and Hospitals has declined the bulk of $352 million in disaster assistance handed to the state by the Federal Emergency Management Agency late last week, with agency officials saying that they spent only about $10 million during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The $352 million showed up in a list of projects approved by FEMA totaling $457 million, which was deposited by the federal government last week in the state of Louisiana's bank account. But the state health department has taken only the roughly $10 million that they are entitled to so far, said Bob Johannessen, the spokesman for the agency.

"We are obligated under federal law to return that money. That is what we did," said Johannessen, who noted that the agency is supposed to take only what it has actually spent.

He said that the health department eventually expects to spend about $60 million in dealing with Katrina, including such costs as the shelters and triage centers set up to evaluate people evacuated from the flooded New Orleans area. Agency officials expect to request that FEMA eventually pick up the whole tab for those kinds of items, Johannessen said.

The mixup over the money delineates the confusion over the precise nature of FEMA's public assistance program, which is set up to reimburse state and local agencies for the extra costs they incur because of a major disaster. This can range from debris removal to overtime pay for police and firefighters to the setting up of emergency shelters.

Legislative Auditor Steve Theriot said his staff is encouraging FEMA and the state Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness - the agency that all of the disaster money will flow through - to coordinate their requests for federal dollars with each agency's fiscal director. This way when FEMA staff start to figure out how much a local or state agency needs to recoup their expenses, they will have the best possible figures.

395 posted on 09/27/2005 1:49:19 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)

they try and look good and honest by returning 350 million, while holding out the other hand for 250 billion.

396 posted on 09/27/2005 1:49:19 PM PDT by oceanview

I wouldn't be surprised if each of the missing cops also made campaign contributions.

I'd bet they were all current on their union dues as well.

-Eric

397 posted on 09/27/2005 1:50:03 PM PDT by E Rocc (Anyone who thinks Bush-bashing is banned from FR has never read a Middle East thread.)

You really think Nagin is totally clean?

When you are investigating dirt, you have to get a little dirty, or you are suspect.

398 posted on 09/27/2005 1:50:04 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I jez calls it az I see it.)

To: Primetimedonna

Not that I know of ... Shep hinted at a rumor floating, so I hear.

399 posted on 09/27/2005 1:50:14 PM PDT by maggief (No 'luffs)

Much as I like Tony Snow, I'm not believing this 400 fake cop story until there's corroboration from another source.

400 posted on 09/27/2005 1:50:45 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle

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