Katrina Coverage

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has released FEMA documents showing yet another series of lapses in their response. "Hundreds of available trucks, boats, planes and federal officers were unused in search and rescue efforts immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit because FEMA failed to give them missions".
The ever-dependable DHS spokesman Russ Knocke says:
Katrina […]

A set of emails released by Congress show Blanco's aides offering wardrobe and image advice:
…In a Sept. 4 e-mail exchange, top Blanco aides bristled at Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's remark that the federal government "is in control of New Orleans."
"Our answer is the National Guard is in charge of security under her direction," Blanco […]

Shortly after noon on Wednesday, Aug 31, Karl Rove used Senator David Vitter to convey a message to governor Kathleen Blanco: she should announce that she's voluntarily turned control of the evacuation of New Orleans over to the feds, and she should:
explore legal options to impose martial law "or as close as we can get," […]

Shades of Major Ed Bush! Another NG official has stepped forward to reassure us that the reports of widespread murder, rape, and other violence at the Superdome were just plain wrong:
…The colonel in charge of the National Guard at the Louisiana Superdome in the days after Katrina said the shelter of last resort was a […]

From "Crimefighting Faces Challenge in Big Easy":
[…911 is a joke…]
"We just don't have enough police officers to handle the calls we're getting," said New Orleans Councilman Jay Batt, who has received calls from more than 100 other residents with similar concerns…
The streets of New Orleans are patrolled now by a much-reduced force.
The National Guard whose […]

Joint Task Force-Katrina has been shut down and Lt. Gen. Russel Honore has returned to his previous assignment as commander of the 1st Army.
And:
[Paul McHale, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense] denied that President Bush ever proposed to Gov. Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana or Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi that Honore take charge […]

On Saturday, Lisa Myers had a segment on NBC News discussing Kathleen Blanco's various mistakes. A transcript is here:
Myers: "Though experts had warned it would take 48 hours to evacuate New Orleans, Blanco did not order a mandatory evacuation that Saturday."
…Myers: "She and the mayor waited until Sunday [Aug. 28] , only 20 hours before […]

Please post links to scanner transcripts, videos, etc. etc. in the comments.
These are four links to very large, raw log files. Save to disk and open in notepad or similar:
http://carolinacomputingsolutions.com/nola/%23interdictor-scanner.freenode.log
http://carolinacomputingsolutions.com/nola/%23interdictor-scanner2.freenode.log
http://carolinacomputingsolutions.com/nola/%23interdictor-scanner3.freenode.log
http://carolinacomputingsolutions.com/nola/%23interdictor-scanner4.freenode.log
There are several links here

This interview downplays the charges of violence at the Superdome.
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The Defense Dep't commissioned an "independent and critical review" of the response to Katrina to be conducted by "Stephen Henthorne, a former professor of the US Army's War College and an adviser to the Pentagon who was a deputy-director in the Louisiana relief efforts."
The Independent UK says it's seen a copy of the report:
It charts […]