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  • Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina

    03/01/2006 2:45:33 PM PST · by wjersey · 320 replies · 9,359+ views
    Breitbart (AP) ^ | 3/1/2006 | MARGARET EBRAHIM and JOHN SOLOMON
    WASHINGTON In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, risk lives in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage of the briefings. Bush didn't ask a single question during the final government-wide briefing the day before Katrina struck on Aug. 29 but assured soon-to- be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared." Six days of footage and transcripts obtained by The Associated Press show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New...
  • A Word About Finger Pointing

    09/03/2005 7:13:20 PM PDT · by ex-Texan · 68 replies · 1,928+ views
    JunkYardBlog ^ | 9/3/2005 | Staff Writers
    A WORD ABOUT FINGER-POINTING: I'm not going to get into every outrageous thing every lefty has said since the New Orleans crisis began. They're too numerous, too unreasonable and honestly, and besides, the left is really beyond the reach of facts now. Sniping back at every idiotic thing they have said this past week would probably fill up a good sized library, and be entirely futile. And I don't have to say much when that picture of those buses says just about everything that needs being said. I will say this. I think it's tremendous that some bloggers have chosen...