KATRINA COVERUP: "The Bush Admin Is Stonewalling The Congress"...

[kpete]

Katrina Coverup: "The Bush Administration Is Stonewalling The Congress"...

White House Declines to Provide Storm Papers


By ERIC LIPTON
Published: January 25, 2006

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 - The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior White House officials available for sworn testimony before two Congressional committees investigating the storm response.

The White House this week also formally notified Representative Richard H. Baker, Republican of Louisiana, that it would not support his legislation creating a federally financed reconstruction program for the state that would bail out homeowners and mortgage lenders. Many Louisiana officials consider the bill crucial to recovery, but administration officials said the state would have to use community development money appropriated by Congress.

The White House's stance on storm-related documents, along with slow or incomplete responses by other agencies, threatens to undermine efforts to identify what went wrong, Democrats on the committees said Tuesday.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/politics/25katrina.html?hp&ex=1138165200&en=e89a11af74ffd279&ei=5094&partner=homepage

VIA:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/01/24/katrina-coverup-the-bus_n_14395.htmlCOVE

[Hailtothechimp]

1. Think ALITO would ever force them to turn anything over?

Not bloody likely!!!!

[kpete]

2. Is Lieberman GOOD for something?

Lieberman: White House hindering Katrina probe

Wednesday, January 25, 2006; Posted: 3:39 a.m. EST (08:39 GMT)

Manage Alerts | What Is This? WASHINGTON (CNN) --

The White House is dodging questions about Hurricane Katrina response and has instructed other agencies to join it in fending off investigators, Sen. Joseph Lieberman said on Tuesday. The White House denies the allegations.

Lieberman went so far as to suggest that the Department of Homeland Security is trying to kill the investigation.

"My staff believes that DHS has engaged in a conscious strategy of slow-walking our investigation in the hope that we would run out of time to follow the investigation's natural progression to where it leads," Lieberman said. "At this point, I cannot disagree."

The Connecticut senator, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, further said no real reason is being given for the administration's reticence.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/24/katrina.levees/index.html

[DrDebug]

3. K & R

http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=search&search=katrina

[Stephanie]

4. Would France and Canada please invade us and overthrow this despot?

If that doesn't work I'm out of ideas. I've had it.

[spanone]

5. UnFuckingBelievable....there is no end to these criminals...

[Marleyb]

6. because they are GUILTY!

not of mere incompetence, but of knowingly letting that 'disaster' happen on purpose. They did it ON PURPOSE. There were so many stories of people trying to help and FEMA stopped them. They stopped water shipments, stopped rescue boats, cut communication wires.

These are VERY SICK BASTARDS!

I will never get over what they did to the people of NOLA. None of us should ever get over that. NEVER FORGET! And we can NEVER GIVE UP until these bastards end up where they belong...