Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.
Good find! Reminder bump. ;-)
LA governer just posted on her web site letter requesting federal takeover,which looks like the one drafted by the Bush administration that she refused to sign, BACKDATED to Aug. 27th.
Can someone investigate when this appeared and why it was backdated?