Secrets of a White House Gone Wild

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Excerpt from the NY Times Bestseller, Armed Madhouse - From Baghdad to New

Orleans - Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild by Greg

Palast at: _http://www.johnperkins.org/Article%20of%20Interest.htm_

(http://www.johnperkins.org/Article%20of%20Interest.htm)

Here is a little about Katrina. There is lots more of interest at the

site......

" Before the Big Bust, we learned a little more about how New Orleans

drowned. Given my line of work, I'm not shocked at much. Yet, this one got to

me.

" By midnight on Monday the White House knew. Monday night I was at the state

Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware that the levees had

breeched. Nobody. "

The charges were so devastating -- the White House's withholding from the

state police the information that the city was about to flood -- that from

almost any source, I simply would have dismissed it. But this was not just any

source. The whistleblower was Dr. Ivor van Heerden, deputy chief of the

Louisiana State University Hurricane Studies Center, and the chief technician

advising the state on saving lives during Katrina.

That Monday night, August 29, 2005, the sleepless crew at the state

Emergency Operations Center, directing the response to Hurricane Katrina, were

high-fiving it, relieved that Katrina had swung east of New Orleans, sparing

the

city from drowning.

They were wrong. The Army Corps, FEMA and White House knew for critical

hours that the levees had begun to crack, but withheld the information for a

day

and night. The delay was deadly. "

 

 

 

 

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