THEN RETRACTS!Wayne Madsen wrote an article in where he linked James Witt & Associates to the New Orlean Disaster and in fact blames Mr. Witt's company for being a part of the problem.
http://www.wittassociates.com/index.xml It included this passage....
FEMA Outsourced New Orleans Disaster Plans
WNY Media Network - Buffalo,NY,USA
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco has announced that she is hiring Witt to assist in the hurricane recovery.
Just a minute here. His firm (which includes retired Gen. Wesley Clark) was part of the IEM team that came up with the non-existent $500,000 FEMA New Orleans-Southeast Louisiana Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan. Why pay this guy again for his incompetence? Republicans + Democrats = Partners in Crime.http://www.wnymedia.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=35Here is the "correction" although the article is still running on several websites as was....the correction is only found on Mr. Madsen's website. He mentioned that "someone" is trying to frame Witt and Associates...like Rove, but actually, I knew that Witt and Clark had not received the contract, and if Mr. Madsen was a real journalist, he could have found this out PRIOR to writing this article.
Please note: News disinformation does not come from the right only. The Leftist extremists are also guilty of it. So please beware of Mr. Madsen and his "F-A-C-T-S"!
Corrective article
http://waynemadsenreport.com/September 4, 2005 --
WMR contacted by spokesperson for James Lee Witt. Yesterday, WMR reported that according to a June 3, 2004 press release from Innovative Emergency Management (IEM), Inc. it received a FEMA contract to develop a "Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana." The IEM press release stated that among its team partners was James Lee Witt Associates.
Witt was FEMA director under President Clinton and he restored that agency's disaster recovery effectiveness after President George H. W. Bush's ineffective response to Hurricane Andrew in 1992. According to Witt's spokesperson, James Lee Witt Associates continues to be fraudulently listed on IEM's web site as a team partner for the over $500,000 FEMA contract work.
The IEM press release that contains the erroneous information has been disappearing and reappearing, another sign of something suspicious with IEM.IEM, which is an 8-A minority-owned firm, apparently used Witt's name as a "buy in" ploy to lock in the FEMA contract. What is fishier is that the IEM press release was reportedly sent out before the FEMA contract was actually awarded.
After IEM began the work on the FEMA contract, it never once used Witt's company and did not pay it one cent. Informed sources claim that IEM, owned by a big donor to the GOP, is notorious for not completing work after contracts are awarded. The Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana was no exception.
Mr. Witt is now acting as a pro bono disaster recovery adviser for Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco. Witt's spokesperson was frank is stating, "you don't really think the Bush administration would have given a contract to someone who worked for Bill Clinton?" That is very true. The issue with the incomplete FEMA hurricane preparedness plan is in IEM's and its actual partners' court.
James Lee Witt, likely America's most effective FEMA Director, had nothing to do with the IEM work and he now needs all the support the nation and state of Louisiana can muster as he prepares to confront America's worst natural disaster in its history.
and the editor smells Karl Rove.
"No Editor....I smell that based on your lack of professional journalistic methods, it is you who set up Mr. Witt and Gen. Clark.
Be accountable for your mistakes and try not to pass them on to someone else. We already have too much of that as it is!"--FRENCHIE CAT :eyes:
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