Kathleen Tierney
Kathleen Tierney
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They did anticipate breaching of the levees, that the pumps wouldn't work, ... couldn't get the federal assistance they needed. They knew they were living on a time bomb.
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The big question in everybody's mind is whether entities that proved themselves incompetent to handle Hurricane Katrina can become competent by the summer of 2006. So far, we've seen no evidence of that.
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It is extremely important that a commission independent of the executive and legislative branches analyzes the Katrina disaster and the events leading up to it.
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We need a panel of qualified experts that is knowledgeable and objective and has all the investigative and subpoena powers necessary,
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The plan was simply to get some people out and the rest to the Superdome, ... A network of shelters was never part of the plan, even though it was recognized that the city is a bowl and would be filled with water, that there would be no electricity.