SKY NEWS ENGLAND: US GOVERNMENT KNEW IN MAY

[brettdale]

Sky News England has just reported that the US Government recieved a report from some Army Engineers that the Levees wouldnt be strong enough to substain a Hurricane and they needed more than the $10 Million dollars that they were receiving from the government.

[Arugula Latte]

1. Sky News is Murdoch, no?

Interesting they reported this.

[rooboy]

14. Yes, it's Murdoch...

but Sky News is nowhere near as toxic as Fox. There is Sky UK and Sky Australia - the Australian one occasionally does some very good reporting.

[proud patriot]

2. link ?

:hug:

[speedoo]

3. link?

we need this... prosecution exhibit A.

[apnu]

5. I think they are talking about this linkie here

http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Press_Releases/pressrelease060304_Catastrophic.htm

Which is dated June 3, 2004

[brettdale]

7. That must be a separate report

The report from the army engineer they gave was dated May 2005

[FlashHarry]

8. Object Not Found

WTF?

[apnu]

11. Damn! memoryhole time!

Part of the text from that report is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4545852&mesg_id=4545852

[apnu]

15. The link is back!!!

[brettdale]

6. It was on TV

It was on TV

[Ediacara]

4. They knew long before May

The levees were only built to withstand a Cat3. Levee failure wasn't a fucking secret....

[RageFist]

9. Bill O'Reilly made that point last night.

He seemed pretty ticked.

[HereSince1628]

10. Depraved indifference is a criminal offense

The cutting of funds to the Corps of Engineers so the Bush could give tax breaks to the rich and carry on a war thus becomes a domestic crime.

Bush's indifference to the deaths he potentiated is nothing less than depraved. I haven't the resources to donate to N.O. relief and an impeachment movement, but I sure wish I did.

I have never been SO ready for an alternative solution in my life.
Clinton got impeached for lying about sex in his office.

HOW are Bush's decisions to ignore the risk he placed hundreds of thousands of people in LESS offensive? I don't think they are.

[Boo Boo]

12. They knew *way* before that.

They've cut funding dating back to 2003 from what I've read. And knowledge that the levees weren't good enough predates the Bush Admin by years and years. FEMA warned of this disaster in 2001, Bush cut funding, and those cuts played a direct role in the flooding of NO.

[applegrove]

13. Poppy will get on and talk about "backing the team". You don't back

a lawless cabal unless you are a patsy.