January 23, 2006, Something else we couldn't anticipate...
WaPo reports that the White House had "eerily prescient" detailed knowledge about the likely effects of Hurricane Katrina two days before it made landfall in the New Orleans area... a rather extensive presentation, including graphic models of breached levees, arrived in the White House situation room.
Of course, the President was over 1,000 miles from the White House situation room trying to avoid seeing Cindy Sheehan at his full-time hobby ranch in Crawford, Texas at the time... or he might have gotten a look at his own government's hurricane and damage projections in time to, perhaps, have the federal government actually do something... to prepare for the hurricane, believed to be America's worst natural disaster since the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
It's just water over the levee at this point...
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It gets better. The WH won't release documents to Congress about Katrina response, nor will it allow its employees to testify.
Posted by Linkmeister at January 25, 2006 2:29 AM