01.24.06

Katrina: Digging for the Truth

Posted in Uncategorized at 7:15 pm by wb42

From the NBC Nightly News blog – some incite into the frustrations facing reporters (and Senators) trying to find the facts. 


Katrina: Who knew what when?  
As Hurricane Katrina approached, who in the Bush Administration knew what, and when did they know it?  Getting to the bottom of that question is a world-class exercise in frustration. Take today’s hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee: The Committee released documents showing that the White House situation room received a report at 1:47 a.m. the day Katrina hit, predicting that Katrina would likely lead to severe flooding and/or levee breaching.  A couple days later, the president said no one anticipated [...]

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