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[Kuros]

[Gopher]

[Kuros]

[Gopher]

[igotthisguitar]

Some final intriguing footage reveals a journalist questioning former President Bill Clinton as to why many locals feel that the levees were purposefully broken.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/090905levees.htm



This was during the press conference with Clinton and George Bush Snr announcing their combined "relief effort" for New Orleans. Upon hearing the question Clinton appears to be surprised and then simply walks off.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/audio/090905clinton.mp3

[EFLtrainer]

[quote="Kuros"]

[ontheway]

Everyone is really giving Bush or any President in modern times too much credit regarding "his" budget. No modern president nor any member of congress in modern times has read the US Budget either as proposed or passed. This point was very extravagantly made some years ago when a man, one single individual, succeeded in actually reading the budget for one Fiscal Year. The only man in modern history to read the US Budget. He was interviewed on the Today Show and several other talk shows. Mind you, he didn't study or analyze it, he just read it. No one else has, before or since. That's right NOBODY.

Each member fights for his piece of pork and they fight over the totals, but no one actually looks inside. It's just to big and too complicated.

Tens of thousands of people, committees, agencies, departments and various other groups are responsible for bits and pieces of the budget. Each acts without any interest in the Budget nor the country as a whole. It's one of the reasons big socialistic institutions and programs ultimately fail. The US is a big socialist pig trough.

It's very likely that Bush had no idea about the money for the NO levees one way or another. Of course, he can never admit knowing or not knowing. If he didn't know, he's incompetent, stupid and out of touch. And if he did know, well then ... he's incompetent, stupid and out of touch.

That is why it was important for the Louisiana Congressional Delegation to push for the funding if they felt it was important. They could use the DHS report to garner publicity and support for the funding if it was on their priority list. They didn't .

And that is why I ask the question, "Who among you spoke out about this a year ago....(and) what is the next big unfunded project that should be funded?" Because, if you know what it is, YOU can make it a personal project and get it funded. When you make a big noise, they're happy to throw money at you, get a Photo OP, and have you go away smiling.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[EFLtrainer]

[EFLtrainer]

FEMA or the State of LA?? It's gonna be one big mess sorting all the factors out....

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050917/ap_on_re_us/katrina_evacuation

As far back as eight years ago, Congress ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to develop a plan for evacuating New Orleans during a massive hurricane, but the money instead went to studying the causeway bridge that spans the city's Lake Pontchartrain, officials say.

The outcome provides one more example of the government's failure to prepare for a massive but foreseeable catastrophe, said the lawmaker who helped secure the money for FEMA to develop the evacuation plan.

"They never used it for the intended purpose," said former Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La. "The whole intent was to give them resources so they could plan an evacuation of New Orleans that anticipated that a very large number of people would never leave."

In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, attention has focused on the inability of local and federal officials to evacuate or prepare for the large number of poor people, many of them minorities, who had no access to transportation and remained behind.

That possibility was one of the concerns that led Congress in 1997 to set aside $500,000 for FEMA to create "a comprehensive analysis and plan of all evacuation alternatives for the New Orleans metropolitan area."

Frustrated two years later that nothing materialized, Congress strengthened its directive. This time it ordered "an evacuation plan for a Category 3 or greater storm, a levee break, flood or other natural disaster for the New Orleans area."

[ontheway]

the Urbanmyth didn't understand my post, so let me expand:

The budget is so big that the prez. probably didn't read nor know about funding levels for the NO levees, nor most line items in the budget. Then I made an ironic comment that: if he admitted to not knowing about the levees, he would be condemned as being stupid and out of touch with his own government and his own budget, and if he admitted to knowing about the unfundeed levee projects he would also be condemned for being stupid and out of touch with the world and the people - a no win political situation.

Although I don't like Bush, condemning him for the levee funding levels in the way it is being done here is unfair.

[EFLtrainer]

[igotthisguitar]

Criminal Probe Set For New Orleans Levees

POSTED: 7:46 pm EST November 10, 2005
UPDATED: 7:46 pm EST November 10, 2005

NEW ORLEANS -- Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into the levee failures that swamped New Orleans, looking into the possibility of corruption in the design, construction and maintenance of the flood barriers.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said Wednesday that his office began the investigation the week after Hurricane Katrina.

"The scope of our interest is very broad," he said.

He said some officials were found to have undisclosed conflicts of interest, and "we're extremely concerned about those." He would not give details.

James Bernazzani, FBI agent in charge in New Orleans, said agents have received numerous tips about possible malfeasance.

Other investigations are being conducted by Louisiana's attorney general, who is looking into whether poor construction or design flaws played a role in the failures, and the New Orleans district attorney, who raised the possibility that faulty materials were used in the floodwalls.

http://www.wral.com/apnationalnews/5297110/detail.html