Expert FiredWho Warned Levees Would Burst

Van Heerden is one of the very few heros of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

They should be building monuments to him, not firing him.

Some decent college or university should hire him.One that is not for sale to a corrupt state government or the right-wing interests. Thanks for posting this article! Obviously not in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, or Texas. This story is not at all well known. and how many people would actually care if it were? The right-wing white racists and extremists would say it is in the past, forget it. The right-wing Republicans and white racists take the attitude that anything about a Republican Administration is in the past, and irrelevant. But they attack every past SDemocratic President all the way back to FDR.

How soon ideology replaces the facts

http://newsbusters.org/node/2072

On the Saturday edition of the NBC Nightly News, anchored by John Seigenthaler, correspondent Lisa Myers reported several critical mistakes made by Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco in handling the Hurricane Katrina crisis. The story even showcased a whispered conversation, recorded by CNN, between Blanco and an aide in which Blanco admitted she had been too slow in asking for federal troops. Blanco: "I really need to call for the military ... and I should have started that in the first call."

Myers also relayed that when Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation 20 hours before Katrina hit, they were ignoring the advice of experts who had warned it would take 48 hours. Additionally, Blanco was slow to get National Guard troops to restore order.

progressive wrote:

Some decent college or university should hire him.One that is not for sale to a corrupt state government or the right-wing interests. Thanks for posting this article! Obviously not in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, or Texas. This story is not at all well known. and how many people would actually care if it were? The right-wing white racists and extremists would say it is in the past, forget it. The right-wing Republicans and white racists take the attitude that anything about a Republican Administration is in the past, and irrelevant. But they attack every past SDemocratic President all the way back to FDR.

Which makes it all the more ironic that the hero of this suppressed story is a White dude from South Africa.