This is an alleged transcript of the report CBS Nightly News did on Bahamonde's October 20 testimony. In case you care, the claim at the link is that NBC and ABC did not cover this:
BOB SCHIEFFER (CBS News anchor): Congress heard more shocking testimony today about FEMA's slow response to Hurricane […]
According to Bush Adviser Acknowledges Lack of Preparation for Katrina, on the night of Monday August 29, Marty Bahamonde reported to Michael Brown that "he had observed a massive break on the Lake Pontchartrain levee [the 17th Avenue Canal levee] and flooding over 80 percent of the city". Brown told Bahamonde that he would call […]
His 10/20 testimony from the Senate is in this PDF file. There are excerpts here.
The emails sent by various FEMA officials were made public, and a brief overview and links to the downloads are available here. A few excerpts are here.
The Marty Bahamonde emails are in this PDF file and ones sent to and from Michael Brown are in this PDF file.
I've cached those in case the links stop […]
FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings
Federal Emergency Management Agency officials did not respond to repeated warnings about deteriorating conditions in New Orleans and the dire need for help as Hurricane Katrina struck, the first FEMA official to arrive in the city conceded Thursday.
Marty Bahamonde, a FEMA regional director, told a Senate panel investigating the government's […]
