Before Katrina Struck Brown Warned Bush "The Levees Could Actually Breach"

[kpete]

Before Katrina Struck, Michael Brown Warned Bush ‘The Levees Could Actually Breach’
On September 1, two days after the storm hit, President Bush said “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.” Last night on CNN, former FEMA Director Michael Brown said he personally warned President Bush the levees could breach before the storm hit:

MESERVE: In the transcripts of the 29th briefing, you talk about conversations you had that morning with the president. This is the day of landfall…How did the president know to ask about breaches of the levees? Did he have reports in hand at that time already that that had happened in New Orleans?

BROWN: There’s no question in my mind he probably had those reports, because we were feeding in the Homeland Security Operations Center, into the White House sit room, all of the information that we were getting. So he had to have had that information. Plus, I think the president knew from our earlier conversations that that was one of my concerns, that the levees could actually breach.

The White House still maintains that Bush’s September 1 statement was accurate and the media continues to play along.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/03/brown-warned-bush/
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/02/sitroom.03.html

[Bandit]

1. Yes but the Mighty Scheduler sent Bush* to San Diego instead

The Mighty Scheduler would not let Bush* help those people just like the Mighty Scheduler would not let Bush* visit the real India.

[JaneGat]

2. An effective president would anticipate the worst case scenario

in any disaster that could affect thousands of lives. Whether he was told that the levees could top or be breeched should have registered the identical level of alarm. The eventual outcome speaks for itself.