WaPo retraction on emergency declaration

Paul Craig Roberts offers "From Federal Failure Arises More Federal Power", which makes the following claims:
- funding for the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) was cut...
- likewise with the work of the US Corps of Engineers on the New Orleans levees
- FEMA didn't undertake "normal advance preparations"
- "FEMA took no action until 3 days after the hurricane"
- money for preparedness was spent on Iraq
And, this:

...A senior Bush administration official planted on the Washington Post the disinformation that FEMA could not act because the Louisiana governor had not declared a state of emergency. Hours after printing this disinformation, a red-faced Washington Post issued a retraction, which reads: "A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26."
Nevertheless, the disinformation was widely spread by Brit Hume and other Bush shills who operate out of Fox News (sic), and it continues to be spread via rightwing talk radio and pro-Bush Internet sites. Fox News (sic) host Bill O'Reilly spread similar disinformation. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff added to the disinformation against Gov. Blanco. Most Republicans cling tightly to the orchestrated disinformation as it coddles their state of denial about the failure of leadership in the White House...

Here's the retraction:

A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26.