CNN debunking the LIES from Chertoff!

[Walt Starr]

Chertoff went off on how they could NOT "reasonably expect" the damage and direct hit on NO.

Meteorologist on CNN DEBUNKED THAT LIE by giving the timeline where the National Weather Service PREDICTED A CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE AT LANDFALL ON NEW ORLEANS 2 AND A HALF DAYS BEFORE THE STRIKE!!!

The information was there. Everybody KNEW THE SCENARIO, but Chertoff and Mike "FEMA Fred" Brown CHOSE TO IGNORE IT!!!

[joanne]

1. Exactly!

The media is sick of the American public being LIED to.

Good for CNN for a job well done.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. looks like that's what it finally took, but........

anybody else here been burned so often over the last five years to be VERY wary of this as a momentary blip; an aberration, from which they'll return to their usual, fawning, credulous sycophancy?

I hope that's not the case, but I still think that this is what'll happend

it sure takes the edge off any wolfcries of terra events, at least in the short run

time to give the hoes a bit of positive reinforcement, though, so they know to salivate for doing a GOOD job, for a change

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. CNN! CNN! CNN! CNN! CNN! CNN! CNN!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Beat me by a minute!

[cthrumatrix]

4. with evacuation HELP and bush "green lighting north. command" this story

would be MUCH different...

it was the delay by bush and not accepting aid coming into Lo.

[vickitulsa]

32. I agree the Bush delay caused the rest of the machine to fail

to see a need for HURRYING.

The President SET THE TONE with which the rest of the government apparatus could respond to the disaster. His failure to end his vacation soon enough -- even going to AZ and then CA in the two days following Katrina's landfall -- said all the many agencies needed to hear about how URGENT this situation really was for them.

This is what a President DOES: he SETS THE TONE. He clues in everyone else under his command by how he responds.

They all saw how little he cared, how UNserious he considered this event; and even the ones whose job it is to hop into action FAST failed to be motivated by such a Presidential reaction.

THAT is what will be evident more clearly every day as the catastrophe continues to unfold, I believe.

~VV

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[Roxy66]

5. Former FEMA director......knows they screwed up big time

[zippy890]

15. who was that -- knew what he was talking about

'..have to have COMMAND & CONTROL' which was obviously absent

[justabob]

22. Another former FEMA official, maybe former head

He's had a lot to say this am. Kenhover (something like that is his name)

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Watched it!

:applause: CNN

[doublethink]

8. 'Whoda ever thought they would have used planes as missiles"

if you don't know who said that you haven't been paying attention. :) Isn't it pathetic when they are caught in their lies immediately. Peace.

[Swamp Rat]

9. DUPE ... 'Bout fucking time!!!!!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Swamp Rat]

10. 'Bout fucking time!!!!!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

The bell tolls for them...

[babylonsister]

11. Nominated! We have all been lied to; thanks, CNN, for

finally doing your job this week. That's so refreshing after having an absence for so long.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. kick nt

[blitzen]

13. yep....my personal testimony here (link)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4609135

[Old and In the Way]

14. The Senate hearings convened by Collins/Lieberman ought to be

very interesting. Will this inquiry be whitewashed like 9/11?

[babylonsister]

19. I don't see how; we've all been witnesses to this.

There are some things they just can't hide.

[Gabi Hayes]

21. they've hidden EVERYTHING for four and half years in plain site.

only with a functioning media does anything happen that will make a difference with this group

[babylonsister]

28. There is still info about 9/11 we haven't been privy to;

we watched the current scenario unfold. There's no getting the toothpaste back in this tube.

[Bumblebee]

23. Hope they are instead of Roberts hearings. Sandra said she

would stay as long as there is no replacement so it's obviously not as urgent as this one. I hope the Dems insist on that. Prioritize.

[MissMarple]

16. And Governor Blanco asked George for help on Sunday.

Governor Richardson of New Mexico offered his national guard, she accepted but need an OK from George, THAT didn't come until Thursday.

The apologists will try to say "It was the paper work, the paper work, ,the bureaucracy, we had to assess, ...yada, yada, yada."

Nonsense, it was the politics, it's alway the politics with this criminally negligent administration.

[MissMarple]

20. And, as importantly,they trashed the old FEMA, the one that could respond.

They crippled it and destroyed it, and replaced it with...nothing.

[Theres-a]

17. Chertoff=Jerkoff

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. Crying here! It's so vindicating to hear the truth! I heard last night on

Real Time, Bill Maher said that one good thing came out of Katrina. It was that we have Our Press back!

[leetrisck]

24. Also on CNN-Gov Blanco just hired Jamie Lee Witt

to help them. FEMA director under Clinton - best one this country ever had. YEAH.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. Thank you! Stuck in my cave here working and have to finish so

I can watch again! I appreciate the update! Yeah!!!!

[Gregorian]

25. AWOL AGAIN

Criminal negligence.

Even the dj on the radio was screaming about how late the warnings were. And that was last SATURDAY! And that was a college station that plays music and never gets political.

Criminal negligence.

[CantGetFooledAgain]

26. Not too bright, Skeletor (nt)

[Carni]

27. Hell they knew a huge storm was in the gulf for a week didn't they?

What day did it hit Florida?
The thing dumped a huge amount of water even as a category 1.
It was slow moving and huge it was pretty obvious even to me that it was headed in the direction of LA and Mississippi.
Cat 1 hits land and doesn't slow down before moving out into overly warm water? Kind of a no brainer IMO

[leftofthedial]

30. they were ordered to ignore it

this goes straight to the top

unka dick

[zippy890]

34. criminal negligence

I know its hard to believe our government is this inept, but they are.

- they do not believe in federal agencies/depts (repub.dogma)
- they believe only people who are working, have money/property are deserving of anything, and that would be things they can buy
- 'pick yourself up by your bootstraps or die' - repub. motto

its government at its worst, and I know its hard to believe, but we are seeing the result of extreme republicanism

[Garbo 2004]

31. Chertoff apparently never looked at media from Fri 26 on. It was full of

doomsday predictions for NOLA 24/7. Homeland Security apparently doesn't watch the news. Or liaison with local jurisdictions. Which renders them entirely and completely worthless in the case of an emergency. And this one was predicted days in advance.

These guys are so used to issuing baldfaced lies and having the media and too many people buying what they say that they can't understand that this time, with millions displaced and dead and dying folks shown on TV, too many people know they're just lying. And even the corporate media is hardpressed to go along this time.

[Walt Starr]

35. He's following the lead of Bush

Bush never reads a newspaper. Chertoff probably doesn't either.

[steve2470]

33. kick nt

[Imagevision]

36. Bush could always use Chertoff to take some of the heat!!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Wetzelbill]

37. nice to see CNN finally showing up

This is just a plain shitty and wretched situation. Unconscionable.

[texpatriot2004]

38. Thank you CNN for countering the disinformation! n/t