ThinkProgress ROCKS! Katrina timeline everyone should read &

[DemsUnited]

bookmark.

http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

And while you're at this incredible site, take a look at CIA Leak List if you haven't already...

http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal

ON EDIT: they are also asking for additions in case they've missed something in this fast developing story.

[Shadder]

1. I've been working on this one nonstop for the past 3 days

Many DU members have added items but there is a long way to go.

http://www.katrinatimeline.org

[DemsUnited]

3. Wow, another great source of information, organized and ready to

grow as more facts come in.

Thanks Shadder!!

[Shadder]

5. Thanks

I've got so much information coming in that I can't keep up with it. No telling how big this site will get.

[stillcool]

8. ..hey...i've used that several times...

e-mailing my reps, and for LTTE's...wonderful resource...thanks...

[mirandaod]

2. Excellent.

I'm emailing this to all the conservative relatives. We have to keep pounding to break through the denial.

[mzteris]

4. The information

on here is great.

WH authorized FEMA on the 28th

DOD authorized all troops on the 27th.

I hadn't read these before.....

[catmandu57]

6. Was it Sunday in Crawford

The idiot* spoke for a minute or less on the unfolding tragedy then shifted off to the Iraqi constitution?

[Pirate Smile]

7. Awesome time line. They could add the fact that Condi had

the person thrown out of the Shoe store.

[LSK]

9. this is the smoking gun right here:

Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana

The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005, and continuing.

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding.

Representing FEMA, Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security, named William Lokey as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html

[Old and In the Way]

10. Think Progress puts out an excellent daily e-mail.

I highly recommend everyone sign up for it.