From Blitzer Today: Hiding the Bodies, Part 2

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From Blitzer Today: Hiding the Bodies, Part 2

 

 

 

 

From Blitzer Today: Hiding the Bodies, Part 2

by Richard Cranium

Wed Sep 14th, 2005 at 18:47:31 PDT

or...The Recovery Continues

 

Ok, it's time for me to admit something. Over the

past five years, the Bush administration has

established an exemplary track record at something

other than " spin " and keeping the journos in line.

 

They are masters at hiding dead people (see: Iraq).

 

First, they prohibit the media from accompanying

corpse recovery efforts in New Orleans, and " ask "

(well, ok, order) that pictures not be taken of the

ones that were left lying around the NoLa central

business district for days. Or floaters in the 9th

ward. Or St. Bernard Parish. Or, well, anywhere for

that matter.

 

Now, they're cordoning off entire sections of towns on

the Gulf Coast with barbed wire...

 

More below the fold...

 

Richard Cranium's diary :: ::

Apparently, until the areas can be " disinfected " like

Fallujah, we don't get to see what's going on:

 

 

BLITZER: We're getting some pretty amazing video in

from Long Beach, Mississippi. Joining us now on the

phone CNN producer Peter Tedeschi who is covering this

story for us. Peter, tell our viewers what we're

seeing.

 

PETER TEDESCHI, CNN PRODUCER: Well Wolf, we were just

Long Beach, Mississippi, west of Gulfport a few hours

ago. And we're seeing barbed wire strewn across the

entire length of the city about a half mile up from

the Gulf of Mexico. So when it's completed, we will

see about four and a half miles of rolling barbed wire

by a half mile down to the water.

 

What security guards there are telling us is that they

want to keep looters out. But what some military

police told me privately was that they expect to find

a lot of bodies in the area, that they're finding a

debris field where very nice, middle to upper middle

class homes once existed. And that they can't even get

into the debris field in order to be able to find the

bodies.

 

They are also sending out special teams with the Long

Beach Fire Department in order to see if they can find

cadavers amongst the ruins. I'll tell you, it's among

the worst damage that I've seen in my several days now

in Mississippi. And it really is a wakeup call to

realize that as much as we talk about some of the road

to recovery, there's a very, very long, difficult road

for many, many people ahead.

 

BLITZER: Peter Tedeschi is our producer, showing us

this video. Thank you, Peter, very much.

 

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