This Lost City piece is a pretty riveting read, including the legal ditherings by the White House attorneys to the cock-ups by Mayor Nagin to the entire scope of the mess.
Reader Interactions
5Comments
Comments are closed.
by John Cole| 5 Comments
This post is in: Domestic Politics
This Lost City piece is a pretty riveting read, including the legal ditherings by the White House attorneys to the cock-ups by Mayor Nagin to the entire scope of the mess.
Comments are closed.
Nash
Looks like Operation Deflect Blame is in its last throes.
SurveyUSA
Eric
From Newsweek, “Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco seemed uncertain and sluggish, hesitant to declare martial law or a state of emergency, which would have opened the door to more Pentagon help”
Yet a State of Emergency was declared by the state on the 26th of August. I hope that Newsweek issues a correction. The Washpost did ,
“A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26.”
demimondian
Eric notes the same thing I did: that the front page of the Newsweek article puts forward at least one of the Administration’s lies as fact. This really bothers me — the Blanco story was trivially easy to check, and both the WaPo and Newsweek clearly failed to do so.
jobiuspublius
“We’re baaaack! Wow, I go away and you guys just trash the place. Oh, well, I was getting bored of mousaka anyway.”
jobiuspublius
Here’s something some might find interesting. It make my stomach turn and I’m not sure why. I think it was the word security.
…