Katrina: The White House knew levees would break
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 whistle-blower 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.
Previously: Mad monkeys in Kenya
August 29th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
The White House may have known, but by law, couldn’t do anything. The only body that could, and should have done something was… The New Orleans Levy Board. They were given billions in taxpayer dollars and chose to spend the money on fountains and Mardi Gras floats. Why is no one (including the above author) not screaming for the heads of the members of the New Orleans Levy Board? Oh, I know… because they’re not Republicans.
August 30th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Making it the first and only time this white house followed the law.
Read “The Great Deluge” - theres more than enough blame to go around, but in the final say, the federal government assured the citizens of NOLA that they were protected- and they were not. They assured them that help was on the way- it was not. Even now, 2 years on.