Thom Hartmann: What Really Happened After Katrina Hit

[thomhartmann]

Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy/Family of Secrets, joins Thom. Ten years after his disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina - former FEMA director Michael "Brownie" Brown wants everyone to remember what a good job he did. There’s just one problem - it's been ten years and the city is still in recovery.

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[KT2000]

1. who reviews the contracts?

there are liable parties here. If the contract does not call for a certain level of readiness, then whoever wrote the contract is negligent.
If the contractor cannot live up to expectation of a thorough well-written contract the contractor is negligent and there should be penalties.

[KT2000]

2. after reading this

I still have to ask a question that has never been answered - Why were the "gatekeepers" around NOLA turning away people who came to help such as the Canadian emergency personnel, the ice that was shipped in trucks but refused entry so they drove thousands of miles waiting for permission etc.
This was a deliberate act that no one has been held accountable for.

[Jerry442]

3. Qualified aid workers and supplies were turned away at least several times.

It's not too hard to believe that the outcome that happened was the one planned for -- an enormous number of voters of color discouraged, displaced, or dead.