DHS saying Congress had transcripts (not video) 'months ago"

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the Yahoo story.
I had posted it on DU--but wanted to go back to read the article but now this part is not there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x553010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_video

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_video

Wed Mar-01-06 10:01 PM
Original message
DHS said Katrina tape was given to Congress "months ago"



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katr...

.......The footage — along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press — show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.

Linked by secure video, Bush expressed a confidence on Aug. 28 that starkly contrasted with the dire warnings his disaster chief and numerous federal, state and local officials provided during the four days before the storm.

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"I hope people don't draw conclusions from the president getting a single briefing," presidential spokesman Trent Duffy said, citing a variety of orders and disaster declarations Bush signed before the storm made landfall. "He received multiple briefings from multiple officials, and he was completely engaged at all times."

Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said his department would not release the full set of videotaped briefings, saying most transcripts — though not the videotapes — from the sessions were provided to congressional investigators months ago.......

"Glory Days"

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1. Wash Post says that Congress had the transcripts but not the video.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/01/AR2006030101731_pf.html

Video Shows Bush Being Warned on Katrina
Officials Detailed a Dire Threat to New Orleans

By Spencer S. Hsu and Linton Weeks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, March 2, 2006; A01

A newly leaked video recording of high-level government deliberations the day before Hurricane Katrina hit shows disaster officials emphatically warning President Bush that the storm posed a catastrophic threat to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, and a grim-faced Bush personally assuring state leaders that his administration was "fully prepared" to help.

The footage, taken of a videoconference of federal and state officials on Aug. 28, offered an unusually vivid glimpse of real-time decision making by an administration that has vigorously guarded its internal deliberations........

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.), ranking Democrat on a Senate panel investigating the storm response, said the video underscored the committee's findings that "government at all levels was forewarned of the catastrophic nature of the approaching storm and did painfully little to be ready."

The Department of Homeland Security has provided transcripts but not recordings of the videoconferences to Congress, and the AP did not report how it obtained the footage. A congressional source, speaking on the condition of anonymity because investigators were seeking the tape, said state officials may have recorded the meetings.

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2. Kieth Olberman said these were the documents that WH said they

could not release.