[Skip Ripley]

But they used the word "levee"...this proves they knew about it! In the same manner that use of the words "Al Qaeda" and "Bin Laden" by members of the bush adminstration (including Condoleeza Rice!) prior to 9/11 proves that they knew an attack was coming on that very day!

[Arm_Bears]

How many re-treads on this story now?

[Notwithstanding]

The drive by media doing their usual.

[stopem]

These AP reports and katrinagate tapes etc etc are so stupid that what intelligent, thinking, individual would consider those tapes a scandal?

Much to do as usual about NOTHING!

[jiggyboy]

MAX MAYFIELD: ... The rest of the track we have 10 to 15 feet, in a few areas up to 16 feet. At least glimpsed it out, and Louisiana can talk a little bit more about this than I can, but it looks like the Federal levies [sic] around the City of New Orleans will not have been (incomprehensible) any breaches to.

"That certainly doesn't sound like a warning..."

Let's be honest here -- that second sentence really doesn't sound like anything. "Will not have been..." -- what?

[areafiftyone]

To be Honest I am "Sick To Death" of the Katrina Story - the Media has played this sideways, backwards and insideout. GET OVER IT MEDIA!! Let New Orleans & Mississippi rebuild and get on. You would think this was the only hurricane this country ever had that was devastating!

[VRWCmember]

The reporter claimed that Bush's statement that "nobody could have anticipated that the levees would be breached" seems to contradict the briefing. Well, I guess it would seem that way if you are too big of a F***ing IDIOT to know the difference between a "breached" levee and a "topped" levee.

[The Lumster]

So what! So they talked about the possibility of the levee's being breached. What was Bush supposed to do - go down there and physically hold them up himself.

Bush's mistake was in assuming that Blanco and Nagin had made adequate plans for the safety of their own people. The Feds are never going to be first responders to something like this

How long did it take Fema to get to New York after 9-11?

[SoFloFreeper]

BTTT : GREAT ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION.

Bloggers are now doing the work of journalists.

"Journalists" are doing the work of Democrat party brochure and press release writers.

Democrat party press release writers are doing the work of sucking up to the leftwingnuts of the party.

And the circle of life continues.

[.cnI redruM]

The media ATTEMPTED to get this wrong. They INTENDED to misinterpret this as badly as possible. This was studied and premeditated point-missing.

[OldFriend]

First the media destroyed Brownie, now they've resurrected him for their own end.

[Gritty]

Katrina is all Bush's fault.

These previously secret videos prove he knew all about Katrina ahead of time and kept the rest of us in the dark, especially the residents of New Orleans. Meanwhile, he ordered FEMA to push aside the governments of New Orleans and Lousyanna and stopped the sending of food and water to the Super Dome so Blacks would starve!

This is a much more interesting and important news story than Able Danger and it highlights once again how utterly corrupt and malevolent the Bush/Cheney Administration is and why they should immediately be impeached! /sarc

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

[plain talk]

For the sake of argument - what if they had mentioned breached levees - not just overtopped levees in these briefings? When the briefings occurred there was concern about a Cat 5 direct hit which didn't happen. And take it further. If they were discussing breached levees and such a catastrophe - why weren't all of the people evacuated earlier? This makes the locals look even worse.

[Beth528]

If you want to get a good work out on the treadmill as I did this morning then turn your TV that is on the treadmill to any one of the Liberal channels.Especially this morning..Man I got the speed up to four I was so disgusted..I soon turned the thing off and went about my chores..I won't watch any news shows today..it just makes me see how stupid the Dem's think the American public is..

I wish this would just go away..I am so sick of all the liberal crap about N.O.The Mayor and the Governor were to blame and stop trying to pin it on anyone else..How stupid of the Dem's to keep on about such stuff..The people that left N.O. don't seem to care..A great majority are living off other states..but I have to admit there are some that are working and supporting their family's..The other should be back in sin city rebuilding their city..Oh well that will be a cold day in H--- before that happens..

[R_Kangel]

Unfortunately, the portions of these tapes that are being portrayed by the MSM appears to be discussing the "possibilities" of problems with the levees and with the use of the dome for housing evacuees. It definitely shows the concerns that were voiced before the hurricane hit. When you show these clips along with the president saying that "no one" anticipated the effects of the hurricane and couple that with the transcripts of the actual discusions at the meetings during the six days leading up to the storm, it does make the administration look like it dropped the ball!

Remember,"Perception is Reality" in this media driven world and these tapes are giving the media and DU some very convincing sound bites and quotes!!!

That said, this still doesn't address the fact that there were something like 750 school busses just sitting within a two mile radius of the Dome!!!! There was enough time and busses to get the entire evacuee population out of the city. So why didn't Nagin order the busses to transport the population to safety?

[meandog]

I only wish that a tape was made with Blanco and Nagin...then we'd know the REAL story about how local and state officials dropped the Katrina ball!

[longshadow]

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[aShepard]

And, let's finish the scenerio!

After Bush was briefed, didn't he call BooHoo Blank-o, and request that she federalize the storm effort, before the storm hit, and she never got back to him with an answer!