Must have been listening to Led Zepplin during the party.
"¶Federal officials knew long before the storm showed up on the radar that 100,000 people in New Orleans had no way to escape a major hurricane on their own and that the city had finished only 10 percent of a plan for how to evacuate its largely poor, African-American population."
Awww. Where was baby doc Nagin and the Blanco? The 10% plan called for the rest of the country to provide deluxe buses. What was wrong with your buses in the lot?
"Mr. Chertoff failed to name a principal federal official to oversee the response before the hurricane arrived"
Mr Chertoff and the rest of those guys were warning the NO and LA for a week before. The feds were ready, NO and LA weren't.
"The New Orleans Police Department unit assigned to the rescue effort, despite many years' worth of flood warnings and requests for money, had just three small boats and no food, water or fuel to supply its emergency workers."
Plenty of scalawags, shoplifters and MIAs though.
To say that they were telling nola residents to evac a week before is incorrect. I agree with some of the rest you say. However to be fair some things must be considered. Blanco had really just got into office. To be fair one must ask why the Former Gov who was in office for 8 years doesnt receive some blame.