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Bush Knew About Katrina Disaster Before and Did Nothing

Source: Associated Press, 2006-03-02

Candidate: President George Bush

In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

The footage�along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press�show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.

Linked by secure video, Bush's confidence on Aug. 28 starkly contrasts with the dire warnings his disaster chief and a cacophony of federal, state and local officials provided during the four days before the storm.

A top hurricane expert voiced "grave concerns" about the levees and then-Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown told the president and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that he feared there weren't enough disaster teams to help evacuees at the Superdome.

"I'm concerned about ... their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe," Brown told his bosses the afternoon before Katrina made landfall.

Some of the footage and transcripts from briefings Aug. 25-31 conflicts with the defenses that federal, state and local officials have made in trying to deflect blame and minimize the political fallout from the failed Katrina response:

�Homeland Security officials have said the "fog of war" blinded them early on to the magnitude of the disaster. But the video and transcripts show federal and local officials discussed threats clearly, reviewed long-made plans and understood Katrina would wreak devastation of historic proportions. "I'm sure it will be the top 10 or 15 when all is said and done," National Hurricane Center's Max Mayfield warned the day Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast.

"I don't buy the `fog of war' defense," Brown told the AP in an interview Wednesday. "It was a fog of bureaucracy."

�Bush declared four days after the storm, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" that gushed deadly flood waters into New Orleans. But the transcripts and video show there was plenty of talk about that possibility�and Bush was worried too.

White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Brown discussed fears of a levee breach the day the storm hit.

"I talked to the president twice today, once in Crawford and then again on Air Force One," Brown said. "He's obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he's asking questions about reports of breaches."

�Louisiana officials angrily blamed the federal government for not being prepared but the transcripts shows they were still praising FEMA as the storm roared toward the Gulf Coast and even two days afterward. "I think a lot of the planning FEMA has done with us the past year has really paid off," Col. Jeff Smith, Louisiana's emergency preparedness deputy director, said during the Aug. 28 briefing.

It wasn't long before Smith and other state officials sounded overwhelmed.

"We appreciate everything that you all are doing for us, and all I would ask is that you realize that what's going on and the sense of urgency needs to be ratcheted up," Smith said Aug. 30.

Mississippi begged for more attention in that same briefing.

"We know that there are tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana that need to be rescued, but we would just ask you, we desperately need to get our share of assets because we'll have people dying�not because of water coming up, but because we can't get them medical treatment in our affected counties," said a Mississippi state official whose name was not mentioned on the tape.

Video footage of the Aug. 28 briefing, the final one before Katrina struck, showed an intense Brown voicing concerns from the government's disaster operation center and imploring colleagues to do whatever was necessary to help victims.

"We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event," Brown warned. He called the storm "a bad one, a big one" and implored federal agencies to cut through red tape to help people, bending rules if necessary.

"Go ahead and do it," Brown said. "I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me."

Bush appeared from a narrow, windowless room at his vacation ranch in Texas, with his elbows on a table. Hagin was sitting alongside him. Neither asked questions in the Aug. 28 briefing.

"I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm," the president said.

A relaxed Chertoff, sporting a polo shirt, weighed in from Washington at Homeland Security's operations center. He would later fly to Atlanta, outside of Katrina's reach, for a bird flu event.

One snippet captures a missed opportunity on Aug. 28 for the government to have dispatched active-duty military troops to the region to augment the National Guard.

Chertoff: "Are there any DOD assets that might be available? Have we reached out to them?"

Brown: "We have DOD assets over here at EOC (emergency operations center). They are fully engaged. And we are having those discussions with them now."

Chertoff: "Good job."

In fact, active duty troops weren't dispatched until days after the storm. And many states' National Guards had yet to be deployed to the region despite offers of assistance, and it took days before the Pentagon deployed active-duty personnel to help overwhelmed Guardsmen.

The National Hurricane Center's Mayfield told the final briefing before Katrina struck that storm models predicted minimal flooding inside New Orleans during the hurricane but he expressed concerns that counterclockwise winds and storm surges afterward could cause the levees at Lake Pontchartrain to be overrun.

"I don't think any model can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not but that is obviously a very, very grave concern," Mayfield told the briefing.

Other officials expressed concerns about the large number of New Orleans residents who had not evacuated.

"They're not taking patients out of hospitals, taking prisoners out of prisons and they're leaving hotels open in downtown New Orleans. So I'm very concerned about that," Brown said.

Despite the concerns, it ultimately took days for search and rescue teams to reach some hospitals and nursing homes.

Brown also told colleagues one of his top concerns was whether evacuees who went to the New Orleans Superdome�which became a symbol of the failed Katrina response�would be safe and have adequate medical care.

"The Superdome is about 12 feet below sea level.... I don't know whether the roof is designed to stand, withstand a Category Five hurricane," he said.

Brown also wanted to know whether there were enough federal medical teams in place to treat evacuees and the dead in the Superdome.

"Not to be (missing) kind of gross here," Brown interjected, "but I'm concerned" about the medical and mortuary resources "and their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe."
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User Originated Comments:

From: quisha
2008-01-28 00:00:00
they need to fire yo dumb,selfish self

From: quisha
2008-01-28 00:00:00
he didnt and bush let me ask u sometheing. when u
say no child left behind. were not dumb n were not
blind. they all are standing in your cell about to
take the road to hell.

From: pete
2007-07-13 00:00:00
just to comment on what barbara posted; that's a
bunch of bs. pointing the finger at the president
of the u.s. was really ridiculous in the face of a
catastrophe such as katrina. the washington post
even blamed bush for the hurricane itself. get
real people!

From: pete
2007-07-10 00:00:00
living here in 'the chocolate city,' as our
illustrious mayor calls us, i think new orleans
should be kissing president bush's rear end. he
declared this area a disaster area before the
hurricane even hit. he's made good the money that
continues to funnel in. what the corrupt
politicians do with it down here is another
matter.

From: Barbara
2007-07-05 00:00:00
iam not surprised.
if this city had been
populated by whites only he would have done
something to prepare for it

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8-7-2003	Al Gore Remarks to MoveOn.org at New York University
8-5-2003	More UnDiplomatic Diplomacy Towards North Korea
8-5-2003	Building a House of Cards
8-1-2003	Often-Wrong Cheney
8-1-2003	David Kay Leaks Progress
7-31-2003	Poindexter Goes Down Again
7-30-2003	I lied, too Bad
7-29-2003	As Ridiculous as it is Grotesque
7-28-2003	The Rumor Mill
7-26-2003	Bush's Consistent Failing - No Concern for the American Economy
7-24-2003	Tough-Guy Stance Not Working In Korea
7-22-2003	Hadley Did It
7-21-2003	No CIA Consultation on Bush WMD State of the Union Speech
7-18-2003	Cliff-Notes Style Reading Gets Bush D- on State of the Union Address
7-17-2003	Why won't this go away? Durbin Charges that WhiteHouse Pushed for Niger Uranium Claims
7-17-2003	CIA Officials Didn't get Copy of State of the Union Address
7-17-2003	Who is Robert Joseph
7-15-2003	Taliban is the Key to Iran
7-15-2003	16 Words Just the TIP of the Iceberg
7-14-2003	Bush Told Tenet to Keep the Niger Claims In
7-14-2003	Veteran Intelligence Community Calls for Cheney''s Head
7-13-2003	Bush Credibility Crisis - Al Quaeda to the Rescue
7-11-2003	How the Land of the Free Became the Dinosaur in the Tar Pit
7-11-2003	The Hard Questions If Tenet Told Blair Why didn't he tell Bush
7-10-2003	150,000 Soldier Security Force
7-10-2003	More DoubleSpeak
7-3-2003	BRING 'EM ON!
7-2-2003	The Anonymous Reuters Lie
7-1-2003	Iraq War is Over, but the Fighting Goes On
7-1-2003	What Joseph Wilson Didn't Find in Africa
6-27-2003	Waxman - Why did Bush Lie?
6-27-2003	Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq
6-25-2003	AP - US Didn't kill Bin Laden when they had the Chance
6-19-2003	Cynthia McKinney - Bush didn't know about 9/11
6-16-2003	Write Your Congressman, and while you're at it, Sign the Impeachment Petition
6-13-2003	Gosh, D'ya Think They Might Have Lied
6-13-2003	Call for Impeachment Widens
6-13-2003	Bush Lied
6-13-2003	Here's The Point
6-12-2003	UN - No War Crimes Trials for US Soldiers
6-11-2003	Bush Administration Says No Probe into Faked Intelligence on Iraqi WMD
6-11-2003	It depends on what you mean by -HAS- George has some splainin to do.
6-11-2003	David Kay - it's not about the smoking gun
6-10-2003	Dumbing Down the War
6-9-2003	Damage Control and Spin
6-2-2003	Powell - I'm not Reading this Bullshit
5-30-2003	"Inalienable Rights" at the Pleasure of the Bush Administration?
5-29-2003	Lynch Rescue Ruse
5-27-2003	Read it Here First
5-25-2003	Israeli Intelligence Leaks Knowledge of Iraqi Weapons Moved to Lebanon before US Invasion
5-22-2003	Whitman Resigns Citing Bush Administration's Environmental Failures
5-19-2003	Excuse - who can count them? Stopping Terrorism
5-16-2003	International Criminal Court Preferred Venue for Tommy Franks War Crimes
5-13-2003	We Give Up - There're No Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq
5-12-2003	Will the real Paul Bremmer please stand up?
5-9-2003	9/11 Inquiry Access Stalled by White House - Victims Reach out to Community for Help
5-7-2003	Tommy Franks and Others to be Tried for War Crimes in Belgium
5-6-2003	The Blade Cut Loose - Mitch Daniels Resigns
4-26-2003	John Bolton Warns Syria, Libya, Cuba on Weapons of Mass Destruction
4-24-2003	Trickle Down Tax Cut
4-24-2003	Oil For Food - US to Manage Iraqi Food Supply
4-22-2003	No International Oversight for Weapons Inspectors
4-18-2003	Rumsfeld - I don't think we'll find any.
4-17-2003	Bechtel Rumsfeld Bush
4-16-2003	Excuses Are like Abu Abbas
4-14-2003	Three Excuses - Oops, did I say Iraq, I meant Syria
4-11-2003	Liberation Anarchy Iraq
4-11-2003	so that's it, no weapons, no saddam, no liberation
4-10-2003	Three Diplomatic Mistakes
4-9-2003	Syria - the new Iraq
4-9-2003	Wow, that was easy - Iraq War Over
4-6-2003	Turn Left at Bagdad - There's Syria
4-6-2003	Ooops - forgot to look at the Airport
4-5-2003	Victory with Victory - How to Win a War without objectives.
4-5-2003	Excuse IV - Saddam Might Be The Next Hitler
4-4-2003	Bush to Rule Iraq
4-3-2003	Mourning the Dead
4-3-2003	April Glaspie - US Ambassador to Iraq, 1990
3-27-2003	Mandela on Bush
3-26-2003	Excuse Number II - Liberating the Iraqi People
3-25-2003	Haliburton Awarded Massive Iraqi Oil Reconstruction Deal
3-25-2003	War Crimes
3-22-2003	Will they plant evidence?
3-21-2003	Why Do They Hate US?
3-21-2003	If they had'em, they'd use 'em?
3-20-2003	The Nations of the World Rally
3-20-2003	Washington Times: Will Bush Be Impeached for Starting a War?
3-20-2003	Global Dispatches
3-19-2003	With Thanks To Michael Moore
3-17-2003	Bush's St. Patrick's Day War?
3-17-2003	Congressman: President Misled UN, Congress, and People
3-16-2003	Diplomacy Does Not Equal Extortion
3-14-2003	The Evolution of a War Strategy
3-13-2003	The Bush Tragedy - The Fatal Flaw
3-9-2003	Bush and Christ
3-6-2003	TIP Press Conference
3-5-2003	U.S. General Jay Garner - EX Star Wars Chief Appointed Head of Iraq
3-3-2003	Proposed National Forest Management Act Rules Changes
2-27-2003	Bush - Analyzing the Rhetoric
2-20-2003	Riding With Bill Maher
2-15-2003	world to bush - NO WAR
2-13-2003	Military and Congress Sue Bush Over Iraqi War
2-11-2003	Poets United Against The War
2-7-2003	Colin Powell and the Smokeless Gun
2-3-2003	White House Defends Bush's Guard Service During War
1-30-2003	Bush Shortsighted and Arrogant - Mandela
1-30-2003	Bush Crime Family
1-29-2003	Bush 2003 State of the Union Address
1-24-2003	U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton Protecting the Iraqi Oil Fields First
1-22-2003	Bush Backs SUV's - More Oil for the Mile
1-22-2003	Borrow and Spend - No Fiscal Restraint on Iraq
1-16-2003	The Iraqi Charade
1-12-2003	McLellan Lies about Iraq
1-5-2003	US Developing Low Yield Nukes
1-1-2003	The Buck Never Stops
12-30-2002	Bush gets ready for an Extra 100 Billion in Spending
12-25-2002	Bankers running for cover in Government Debt turn to Bush for help.
12-22-2002	Taxpayers Gave Bush 67 Million to Steal the Election
12-16-2002	The $100,000,000 Man
12-16-2002	Thomas Kean, Co-Chair of Homeland Security Organization Chosen to lead investigation of Homeland Security
12-13-2002	Sabbotaging an Investigation?
12-10-2002	Godzilla and Mothra are watching the Henhouse
12-4-2002	Kissinger's Refusal
12-4-2002	Kissinger should be answering questions - not asking them.
12-1-2002	SMOKING GUN: The Evidence that May Hang G.W. Bush
11-18-2002	CNN Report on the Toothless Watchdog SEC
11-12-2002	US Military in Iraq for months, finally the press picks it up.
11-6-2002	American Oil Companies Meet to Divvy Up the Spoils
11-4-2002	George Bush - Cocaine Addict?
10-31-2002	William Webster - A Bush Sr. Cronie for a do-nothing SEC
10-25-2002	Bush AWOL - Deserter
10-24-2002	Sniper - GW's Shootist Diversion
10-21-2002	The Korean War II - Will Bush Take Them ALL OUT?
10-14-2002	The White House Shell Game
10-13-2002	World Domination IV - Inspections a Prelude to War
10-12-2002	National Emergency Act Continues to Grant Bush Generalized War Powers
10-4-2002	Klamath Falls Wildlife - Bush Breaks the LAW again.
9-29-2002	The President's Real Goal in Iraq
9-27-2002	Bush' Campaign Money Blitz
9-25-2002	Bush Preemption Strategy a Recipe for Disaster
9-25-2002	American Military Action on Iraqi Soil Increases in Last 2 Weeks
9-25-2002	MASSACHUSETTS COURT CASE HINTS AT MAJOR BREAK IN CIA DRUG STORY
9-24-2002	FBI Foreknowledge - But The Buck Stops Where?
9-21-2002	Reuters Reports CIA Foreknwoledge of Sept. 11 Attacks
9-20-2002	World Domination III - No Support from UN?
9-20-2002	George Bush Prevented FBI Action Leading to 9-11 Attacks
9-20-2002	Jose Padilla - American Citizen Taken Hostage by US Government
9-20-2002	Impeach George Bush
9-20-2002	Impeach George Bush
9-7-2002	Bush War Double-Speak
9-3-2002	Bush And CIA Complicit in WTC Disaster
9-3-2002	Bush Provokes Iraq
9-2-2002	Dubya Created our So-Called Recession
9-2-2002	Is Bush Pro Democracy?
9-2-2002	The Carlylye Group
9-2-2002	Help Prevent War
8-16-2002	WTC Evidence - AMEC, FEMA
8-2-2002	Bush Promotes Der Fatherland
7-1-2002	The Bush 9/11 Scandal for Dummies
6-12-2002	Papa Bush - Crimes Against Humanity and the American People
5-27-2002	It Takes One To Know One
2-4-2002	The Mafia, CIA and George Bush
1-19-2002	No Blood for Oil
12-9-2000	George Bush Never Elected

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