Reply #84: who's splitting hairs?

[truthout]

The paragraph you quote is just notifying the president of the areas projected to be affected by Katrina. It does not give a list of parishes. The official list comes later as FEMA does not "guess" which parishes are to be named. That is the responsibility of Gov. Blanco. She does so in her 8-28 memo documenting which parishes needed which kind of federal assistance.

Did you not notice that the list on the 8-28 memo (second page second paragraph) is the same list as posted in the 8-27 press release from the WH? (It's because FEMA got a preliminary list while in communication during this period)

Re-read what the differences are again and see that the Federal Gov has a sequence in doing things.