Investigating Katrina

[erpowers]

I know that Democrats want an independent commission to investigate the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, but since the Republican are having their own investigation why do the Democrats not have an investigation of their own?

[shraby]

1. The Dems wouldn't have subpoena powers to examine

written orders and emails.

[Coastie for Truth]

2. In the Earthquake Fault Line Region we want an independent investigation

This is not a "blame" issue. To use the terminology of the real, professional first responders - we want a real "hot debrief" - "after action report" - "lessons learned."

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Those of us in the "flood plain" and "between the fault lines" - between the San Andreas (as in North Ridge and Loma Prieta) and Hayward/Calaveras Faults in the Guadalupe River-Coyote Creek-Alviso Creek flood plain (the "VIII" region in red at the foot of SF Bay) - are in an area that is even more at risk then even New orleans from flooding or NY from a terror attack. And we do join, and train, and prepare.

And we want to know what went wrong - so we can improve our preparedness. This is not some Rovian "turd blossom" blame game. This is a deadly serious issue - we want our "hot debrief" - "after action report" - "lessons learned" to improve our own training and preparedness.