Reading Eagle reports on some new video footage made available of briefings Bush got before Katrina. I'll be lazy, the first 3 paragraphs are below, but the whole article is worth a read. These guys are just incompetent.
"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, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.
Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: 'We are fully prepared.'"
"The footage - along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press - show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster."
2 comments:
I'm stunned and shocked.
Cut Bush some slack, he was working out with Condoleeza Rice. Yeah the levee burst, but no one ever mentions how fit he looks. Where does a video like that come from? I mean...who has access to get footage like that and release it?
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