Did George W. Bush allow Katrina to happen to hide his own negligence?

As unbelieveable as it sounds that’s the claim of this article;

“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 whistle-blower 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.”

One Response to “Did George W. Bush allow Katrina to happen to hide his own negligence?”

1. John Mortell’s blog » I'm Really Going to have to create a 'Hurricane Katrina' category; said on August 31st, 2007 at 8:40 am:

   [...] the attitude of the like of Laura Bush in and around the time of the hurricane and the like of this article i linked to it seems like the intention is still to screw the people of New Orleans as much as [...]

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