Brown Accuses
Via Pam's House Blend ("The Lying Bastards in the White House"), this fascinating quotation from an AP story:
…[Former FEMA director Michael] Brown's appearance in front of the Senate investigative panel came as new documents reveal that 28 federal, state and local agencies — including the White House — reported levee failures on Aug. 29 [three days before the Bush responded to the Katrina events], according to a timeline of e-mails, situation updates and weather reports.
That litany was at odds with the administration's contention that it didn't know the extent of the problem until much later. At the time, President Bush said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
We note that this could be the usual W prevarication, as in "oh, we knew about it after Brownie and all those others told us, we just hadn't anticipated it."
In: All, Common-Place Book, Raised Eyebrows Dept.
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on Saturday, 11 February 2006 at 20.15
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Well, why in the world would Bush have anticipated the levees might be breached?
Never mind that the news media were reporting the storm at between level 4 and 5 when it roared into Louisiana, and noting (as best I can recall) that New Orleans' levees were designed for level 3 hurricanes at most. Oh yes, and saying that those levees were old and, well, who knows if they're still up to withstanding a level 3 hurricane?
I mean, after all, Bush & Co., realized full well how the media had spent 2004 relaying all that crap about flip-flopper Kerry, Swiftboaters' character-assassination rants, denials that Iraq intelligence had been cherry-picked, etc. So, why would they believe anything the media reported about Katrina and the levees.