KOlberman saying Chertoff may be leaving DHS !! whow.

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1. and saying WH has said nothing of this from India/Pak.

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2. Tom DeFrank saying Chertoff is on borrowed time.

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3. saying Pres. will have to address the Katrina tapes.

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4. so Chertoff man may go. well well well.

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5. "tears the scap off"--the Katrina WH boil. uga uga

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7. and saying no one wants the Fema job either.

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8. How the tapes appeared is still NOT clear (after 6 months)

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9. saying WH initially claimed exc. privledge and would not give to Congress

committees who were investigating.

[MissB]

10. Didn't I read somewhere yesterday that they were never hidden

but only recently reviewed by one of the news organizations?

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12. Well, AP story said DHS had given them to CONGRESS 6 months ago. I

will try to find that story.

[MissB]

13. That must be what I was thinking of. I didn't bookmark it.

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15. here it is.

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.

[MissB]

17. Thank you!

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19. I am hoping some good journalist will look into this.

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. They were circulated the next day, however at the time it wasn't news

worthy - nothing had happened yet, looked like wh propaganda, and were forgotten about

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16. well, if Wa Post story is true--Congress did not look either.

[The_Casual_Observer]

21. Oh, the "investigation", what else would you expect from a

jr "blue ribbon" investigation? The truth?

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22. House Report was very critical--we are waiting for Senate Report

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23. and the "Lessons" learned" WH was --well, whitewash is kind!

[The_Casual_Observer]

24. "lessons learned" implies that they took their licking's and will

do better next time. What could be farther from the truth?

[MissB]

18. You have to wonder what else is out there.

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20. drip drip drip stuff I hope.

[MissB]

6. Hopefully some of the rest of the Bush admin goes with him.

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11. rather scary--when I think about it--Homeland Security is in a mess!

[Neil Lisst]

25. See! I predicted it just yesterday!!

here