DHS and White House *did* anticipate the breach of the levees

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Serge Egelman <egelman () cs cmu edu>
Date: January 24, 2006 10:58:47 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: DHS and White House *did* anticipate the breach of the levees

For IP if you wish:

In today's NYT, there's an article (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/ 
national/nationalspecial/24katrina.html) covering the upcoming  
release of Katrina-related documents coming from the Senate  
investigation.  As Salon so aptly says (http://www.salon.com/politics/ 
war_room/2006/01/24/katrina/index.html):

"On Sept. 1, 2005, as much of New Orleans sat under water, George W.  
Bush appeared on Good Morning America to defend his administration's  
flat-footed response to Hurricane Katrina. "I don't think anybody  
anticipated the breach of the levees," he said.
We knew then that it wasn't true -- experts had warned for years that  
the city's levees would stand no chance against a large storm -- but  
we didn't know whether that knowledge had been delivered to the White  
House. Now we do. As the New York Times reports today, the Homeland  
Security Department warned the White House at 1:47 a.m. on Aug. 29 --  
which is to say, hours before Katrina struck New Orleans -- that "any  
storm rated Category 4 or greater will likely lead to severe flooding  
and/or levee breaching.""



serge





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