CREW Report: FEMA Anticipated Katrina's Destruction

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Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina's destruction of New Orleans Michael Roston
Published: Wednesday June 27, 2007

A major report published Wednesday by a Washington, DC-based watchdog shows that the Federal Emergency Management Agency anticipated the destruction that would result from a major hurricane striking New Orleans, yet failed to follow through on its own internal warnings.

"FEMA’s disaster planning was based on a set of predictions that proved to be remarkably accurate. In 2000-2001, FEMA looked at a population of New Orleans that was over 1.3 million people and predicted that when a catastrophic hurricane struck, the city would be flooded with 14-17 feet of water. One million people would evacuate and 250-350,000 people would be trapped in the city," according to the report, The Best Laid Plans: The Story of How the Government Ignored Its Own Gulf Coast Hurricane Plans.

The report, published by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, is based on 7,500 documents that were released to the group by the Department of Homeland Security in whole or in part. A key documents was the 'Southeast Louisiana Catastrophic Hurricane Plan,' which CREW called "strikingly comprehensive."

"The documents CREW received from its FOIA request reveal failures by FEMA and the federal government at nearly every stage of preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina," the report notes. "Why, despite longstanding anticipation of a hurricane strike on New Orleans, significant forewarning of Katrina’s imminent landfall, the potential impact on the Gulf Coast, as well as the extensive planning in the days leading up to Katrina’s landfall was the federal response so flawed?"

RAW STORY was awaiting comment from FEMA officials at press time on CREW's findings.

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"We promptly recognized an opportunity to let the Darkies drown, and funnel the Federal MegaBucks to our
republicon cronies. The plan worked beautifully. My republicon cronies did a heckuva job.
Smirk, smirk, Smirk."

- Commander AWOL

and that's just what they did. Then we made it look like that dirt bag mayor and democrat governor didn't ask for help soon enough. Heck, we even got ole Timmeh on Meat the Press to attack a local yocal. Then when they was desparate enough, we loaded them in buses that never came back. They may vote democrat, they are so scattered it won't matter. Now our ole friends can do a big land grab down there when the dust settles. It's a dang trifecta again. We are so good."

...can't be interpreted as anything but deliberate and blatant negligence, given that such a document as the 2000-2001 Hurricane Disaster Preparedness Plans described in the article was available to the executive Director of FEMA and thus warrants a criminal investigation by congress and a special prosecutor. In addition, such an investigation needs to look closing at the motivation of the Bush Administration for such a directive issued to and by FEMA. This sounds very much like a deliberate plan to minimize federal assistance response allowing a natural disaster to have maximum impact on New Orleans for the specific purpose of select investment capital could sweep in unchallenged and claim damaged property and abandoned prime real estate at bargain basement salvage value and cheap prices. This is so obviously transparent as just more Bush cronyism at work.

in all its glorious corruption, cronyism, waste, and destruction, but its sickophantic followers and enablers, including most of the MSM, ignore the obvious mounting disasters while singing their sickening praises.