Katrina Speech: Emergency Planning a Low Priority
Katrina Speech: Emergency Planning a Low Priority
Bush said: “I consider detailed emergency planning to be a national security priority.”
FACT — FOUR YEARS AFTER 9/11, STILL NO NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS GOALS: On August 30, “as New Orleans was drowning and DHS officials were still hours away from invoking the department’s highest crisis status for the catastrophe,” department contractors were emailed the planned “national preparedness goal.” “The checklist, called a Universal Task List, appeared to cover every eventuality in a disaster, from the need to handle evacuations to speedy urban search and rescue to circulating ‘prompt, accurate and useful’ emergency information. … But the documents were not a menu for action in the devastated Gulf Coast. They were drafts, not slated for approval and release until October, more than four years after 9/11.” [Washington Post, 9/3/05]
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what most people seem to forget is that FEMA and the DHS were officially put in charge of this disaster on August 27th, by an emergency declaration of the pResident. Neither the governors, nor the state agencies, nor the regional and local agencies were supposed to be “in charge” after that point. It was just that, as with the plans, everything at the Federal level was still in a draft state.
September 15th, 2005 at 10:43 pmFour years later and all those grand plans are non-existent. Bush’s words are empty as he is.
September 15th, 2005 at 10:50 pmWe have met the wizard behind the curtain.
Me: “Where are we going?”
He: “To Hell in a handbasket.”
September 15th, 2005 at 10:55 pmThe President’s prime-time “Katrina Comeback†address was vintage Bush. Primarily designed to help him, and not the Gulf States, recover from his administration’s disastrous bungling of the Katrina response, Bush’s speech offered to shower money on the devastated South. But in his typical fashion, George W. Bush held no one accountable and shunned independent oversight of the response and the rebuilding. Most of all, the Free Lunch President refused to ask the American people to pay for it.
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