[h3][font style="font-weight: normal;" size="3"]The truth is coming out, slowly but surely.........[/font][/h3]
[h3] White House learned of levee failure by email on night Katrina hit [/h3] Snip from NYT story by Eric Lipton:[blockquote]In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush administration officialssaid they had been caught by surprise when they were told on Tuesday,Aug. 30, that a levee had broken, allowing floodwaters to engulf NewOrleans.But Congressional investigators have now learned that an eyewitnessaccount of the flooding from a federal emergency official reached theHomeland Security Department's headquarters starting at 9:27 p.m. theday before, and the White House itself at midnight.[/p](...)"FYI from FEMA," said an e-mail message from the agency'spublic affairs staff describing the helicopter flight, sent Mondaynight at 9:27 to the chief of staff of Homeland Security SecretaryMichael Chertoff and recently unearthed by investigators. Conditions,the message said, "are far more serious than media reports arecurrently reflecting. Finding extensive flooding and more strandedpeople than they had thought — also a number of fires."[/p] [a href="http://nytimes.com/2006/02/10/politics/10katrina.html?hp&ex=1139547600&en=d6fcffd6820bf50d&ei=5094&partner=homepage"]Link to full story[/a][/p][/blockquote]
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It really does make sense when you think about it.[/DIV]How could the authorities not know the seriousness of such a massive disaster days after it occurred?
It's like Bush's 7 infamous minutes after 9/11. I don't know about you, but there seems to be a pattern of massive inertia and indecision following major incidents with this white house. The really ironic part, is that so many people voted for Bush because they felt he would be better in a crisis (tougher and more resolute). Meh.