The FBI was in NO in advance to protect communications...

[Cassandra]

and did nothing to contact federal authorities. What gives?
http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/9/4/124241/5233

"Josh - I would be really interested in some kind of follow-up to an interview I heard in passing yesterday on MSNBC. It was Rita Crosby? (the annoying hoarse blond) yesterday afternoon. She was interviewing an FBI agent who was saying that the FBI had been pre-positioned in New Orleans before the storm hit to protect specific national secuirty assets which he could not name. The example was communications for the entire southeast, I think it was, and I recall an earlier report about a telephone building having been secured through which all calls in a good quarter of the country pass through. I'm assuming there were considerably more issues involved than that one public building. In any event, the FBI were supposedly there all along, had been ordered in before the storm, and were there undercover.

The way I see it, that means communications with the federal governement were never lost. They were there already. And did nothing. Nothing to communicate, coordinate, etc. As near as I can tell, the whole damn government should resign. And while there's no question Mississippi and Alabama have massive, though "normal" and expected hurricane damage from bearing the brunt of the hurricane, we should never lose sight of the fact that the loss of New Orleans is first and foremost a self-inflicted wound, not a natural disaster. And for damn sure not the TWO natural disasters of hurricane and flood that the administration is spouting. Don't forget we had a full day of nothing but calls to repair the levy and a mayor all but losing his mind when the arrangements he'd made to attempt to prevent the flooding completely undermined by someone diverting the helicopters to search and rescue. If ever there was a choice between saving one versus saving thousands, that was it, and whoever bolloxed that one should be shot on sight. "

[tanyev]

1. Holy feck.

So they can pre-position FBI, but not FEMA? All the media can pre-position, but not FEMA? This just stinks to high heaven.

[elehhhhna]

4. A perosn known to me who is a Fema guy was put on standby Sun., the 28th.

But was not called to respond until Thursday.

[pretzel4gore]

2. when does the pea brains smell urine?

scientists on alien planets are watching this, and that is THE BIG QUESTION they're seeking answer to....

[Cassandra]

3. Oil and gas revenue?

Here's another section from someone else on the same page.

"There have been rumblings of a local/federal conflict here. A month or so ago, the Louisiana legislature passed a constitutional amendment requiring any new offshore oil and gas revenue to be put in a trust fund dedicated to coastal erosion. The Feds must have gone ballistic at such effrontery from a state that actually believes in state's rights."

Maybe they want to treat NO like Chavez.

[Cassandra]

5. Kicking...

this is important and weird.

[Land Shark]

6. kick again