White House Declines to Provide Storm Papers
When I read that Jan. 25th headline in the New York Times, I confess I read it as “White House Declines to Provide Storm Troopers.” What ever could I have been thinking?
Yes, it is true, apparently, the White House is so frustrating the investigation of the bad intelligence that suggested that Katrina did not have a weapon of mass destruction, that even Sen. Joe Lieberman, who seldom finds a bad word to say about Bush, is upset.
And what could possibly be the reason for this? We don’t want hurricanes to know what we know? We’re afraid that if hurricanes know how we fight them that they will change their tactics? Congress authorized all presidential action when it passed the bill for the weather service?
On the other hand, the President wants unlimited knowledge of you. Search in Google and the President wants to know. Yes, it may be the case that the request for Google results is a request for general data to support evaluation of Google’s filters, but still, the words ‘fishing expedition’ were designed for this.
NPR says there are only six operating emergency rooms in all of New Orleans – today, months after the storm. But then, electricity production in Iraq isn’t going very well either. Bush is fighting a plan to rebuild New Orleans, at least he’s doing that openly, in Iraq he just appears to have given up.