The American public is deserving a REAL Katrina investigation

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

since there will be more devastating hurricanes and the follies of the past must not be repeated. Not to mention the incompetence, the negligence, the corruption in how and to whom contracts and suppliers were chosen, the piss poor interaction between local, state and federal governments, the actions (inactions) of Bush and Chertoff, the levees, the aftermath for the victims, the rebuilding, etc.

I know Lieberman won't do it, but an investigation could come under many other committees and sub-committees that could get the truth out.

[rudy23]

1. If we did, we wouldn't be talking about "votes" for impeachment--it would be nearly unanimous

I think there's a strange urgency in their zeal to guard communications from that period. They had to buy off Leiberman to keep those "embarassing emails" (Brownie's words) from ever seeing the light of day.

I think if you could just peek at a few of them, you'll see that neglect was intentional, and no one would be able to justify it.

Really, how does the President of the United States not know that a hurricane is coming? Doesn't it make more sense that he was disguising their neglect as incompetence (a recurring theme in this admin)?

Read this article by Greg Palast--they knew. They totally knew. And I bet those emails have some comments that are much more offensive than "nappy headed hos".


http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1258

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Now, let's cut through the crybaby crap. Here's what happened two years ago -- and what's happening now. This is what an inside source told me. And it makes me sick:

"By midnight on Monday, the White House knew. Monday night I was at the state Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware that the levees had breeched. Nobody."

The charge is devastating: That, on August 29, 2005, the White House withheld from the state police the information that New Orleans was about to flood. From almost any other source, I would not have believed it. But this was not just any source. The whistleblower is Dr. Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, the chief technician advising the state on saving lives during Katrina.

I'd come to van Heerden about another matter, but in our talks, it was clear he had something he wanted to say, and it was a big one. He charged that the White House, FEMA, and the Army Corps hid, for critical hours, their discovery that the levees surrounding New Orleans were cracking, about to burst and drown the city.
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[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. My God, aren't we deserving of a real accounting? nt.