" How the White House Drowned New Orleans"

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1258


Greg Palast: Hurricane George: How the White House Drowned New Orleans


It's been two years. And America's media is about to have another tear-gasm over New Orleans. Maybe Anderson Cooper will weep again. The big networks will float into the moldering corpse of the city and give you uplifting stories about rebuilding and hope.

Now, let's cut through the crybaby crap. Here's what happened two years ago -- and what's happening now. This is what an inside source told me. And it makes me sick:

"By midnight on Monday, the White House knew. Monday night I was at the state Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware that the levees had breeched. Nobody."

The charge is devastating: That, on August 29, 2005, the White House withheld from the state police the information that New Orleans was about to flood. From almost any other source, I would not have believed it. But this was not just any source. The whistleblower is Dr. Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, the chief technician advising the state on saving lives during Katrina.

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Van Heerden revealed: "FEMA knew at 11 o'clock on Monday that the levees had breeched. At 2 p.m., they flew over the 17th Street Canal and took video of the breech."

Question: "So the White House wouldn't tell you the levees had breeched?"

Dr. Van Heerden: "They didn't tell anybody."

Question: "And you're at the Emergency Center.'

Dr. Van Heerden: "I mean nobody knew. The Corps of Engineers knew. FEMA knew. None of us knew."
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if this doesn't put the bushmilhousegang neo cons in prison, nothing will.

[KeepItReal]

1. Link to previous thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1649548

[donsu]

3. sorry, I hadn't seen that post

nt

[liberalmuse]

2. This alone should get these creeps serious prison time...

What happened to New Orleans is a crime against humanity. A government turned their backs on a population and let them suffer needlessly. Then again, I contend they did the same on 9-11-2001 and they will do it again and again before they leave office, unless we impeach and indict them first.

[madrchsod]

4. somebody should do some praying

that another storm does`t hit new orleans or anywhere close in the next few weeks....there`s a whole lot of water coming down the mississippi in the next week or so....