Posted on 03/01/2006 6:15:24 PM PST by new yorker 77
WASHINGTON -- On the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, President Bush and a top presidential aide were worried about whether New Orleans' levees had held, according to a transcript of discussions among disaster officials on the front lines of the storm.
Those concerns, expressed about midday Aug. 29, are in contrast to an image of a detached president and also to what happened later that night. That's when an official manning the federal emergency operations center held off acting on reports of levee breaches as he waited for confirmation.
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The transcript, obtained by The Times-Picayune, illustrates the gulf at the highest levels of government between concern for the disaster and action.
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During the call, which began at noon, then-FEMA Director Michael Brown says that he had already spoken to President Bush twice that day.
"He remains very, very interested in this situation," Brown said. "He's obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he's asking questions about reports of breaches. He's asking about hospitals. He's very engaged, and he's asking a lot of really good questions I would expect him to ask."
Later in the call, White House aide Joe Hagin asks specifically about the condition of the levees. Gov. Kathleen Blanco tells him that no failures were confirmed -- yet.
"We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees," Blanco said. "I think we have not breached the levee. We have not breached the levee at this point in time. That could change, but in some places we have floodwaters coming in New Orleans East and the line at St. Bernard Parish where we have waters that are 8- to 10-feet deep, and we have people swimming in there, that's-got-a-considerable amount-of-water."
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The biased AP and MSM crap is news.
FYI
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Nagin will be shocked.
GREAT find (per usual)!!
I got it here. Credit her.
Kathryn Jean Lopez posted the link at NRO's The Corner.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_02_26_corner-archive.asp#091381
Total contrast to the ABC news and the response of the GOP.
A picture is worthless when it is pushed with bias.
Abu Ghraib - May 2004.
Bush Wins - November 2004.
OK, the damn levees don't mean a hill of beans anyway because everyone was told to evacuate by the administration some 2 to 3 days days prior and as a matter of fact it was told not to make light of the storm all over every single media source.
bttt
From another post...
he's already said he was shocked.
It's all about the spin.
The MSM got thousands of miles out of those photos. I would say they were worth their weight in gold to them.
If this appeared in the Times Picayune today, it's an excellent sign.
It's quite simple...
All Bush had to do was wave his "presidential magic wand" to make the hurricane disappear.
That seems to be what most in the MSM are pushing. That somehow, Bush had the power to magically whisk away the floodwaters but chose not to use it. Probably because he hates New Orleans and wants to use eminent domain to seize the abandoned city and give the land to Dubai Ports World so it can build a compound where all "dissenters" will be sent to be tortured.
where's the story?
The dems have been pushing and pushing and pushing at this thing and President Bush has held his fire, hoping everyone would be reasonable and not keep trying to lay the blame. The result is the dems thought it was weakness and are going in for the kill. I have a feeling there is a lot of things that have been recorded that could very well come out. The democrats really don't want that to happen, but they're having too much fun jabbing at the president to notice that things are starting to come out.
Fool's gold.
They lost the elction.
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