Uh oh. The news just keeps getting worse and worse for hte Bush administration.
So what's happened today? Well, this:
Twenty-eight government agencies, from local Louisiana parishes to the White House, reported that New Orleans levees were breached Aug. 29, the day Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, documents released Thursday show.A timeline of e-mails, situation updates and weather reports, pieced together by Senate Democrats, indicates the Bush administration knew as early as 8:30 a.m. EST about levee failures that would ultimately lead to massive flooding of the city and its surrounding parishes.
Basically, what that says is that the White House knew about the breach in the levees and flooding - and did nothing about it. Nothing. How many people died as a result of the government being slow in their response?
But wait, there's more. Michael Brown, the former director of FEMA who helped bungle the Katrina response, has said that he might spill the beans. He says now that he is not on the White House staff any more, his records (phone, e-mail, etc) are fair game. Unless the White House helps him pay for his legal fees.
Oh Brownie, don't you know the only offense that Bush will get mad at you for is not being loyal to the (political) death?
This is why I don't like White House. I mean, they know things and afraid to shear it to the once. Once the source its leak, the blame game starts..