The Washington Post has found the smoking gun about the Bush Administration’s criminal dereliction of duty in (not) dealing with Katrina as it was happening:
“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
– George W. Bush, September 1.
A storm of Katrina’s size would “likely lead to severe flooding and/or levee breaching.”
– Email from the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center to the White House’s situation room, Aug. 29.