October 13th, 2005
Tags: russel honore, jtfk, national guard, states rights
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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 […]
October 3rd, 2005
Tags: russel honore, plaquemines parish
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Thirty-percent of Plaquemines Parish is still under water, and according to Parish President Benny Rousselle, 16,000 out of their 28,000 residents are still displaced. However, note the very low death toll in this report:
…[Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore says] "To these people, the crisis is still going on… They haven't gotten to the recovery part […]
September 12th, 2005
Tags: george bush, kathleen blanco, insurrection act, fema, national guard, donald rumsfeld, dick cheney, charges of racism, max mayfield, ray nagin, school buses, bobby jindal, david vitter, russel honore, bush in bubble
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The Newsweek article How Bush Blew It accuses our leader of having surrounded himself with sycophantic slags, among other sins:
…When Hurricane Katrina struck, it appears there was no one to tell President Bush the plain truth: that the state and local governments had been overwhelmed, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was not up […]
September 10th, 2005
Tags: reporters, russel honore, terry ebbert
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HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans.
Joint Task Force Katrina "has no plans to bar, impede or prevent news media from their news gathering and reporting activities in connection […]
