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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (605191)	3/25/2011 2:17:18 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1580053

President Bush began to communicate the extreme emergency to the Governor and the Mayor days before the storm hit. President Bush asked the City Mayor to declare a mandatory evacuation but the Mayor refused. President Bush urged the Governor to sign the papers needed so that he could order the Federal personnel into position to help. He even made out the paperwork for the Governor, but the Governor refused to sign it, making it illegal for President Bush to help those poor people in New Orleans. The Governor apparently saw it as a kind of political power struggle. Friday, August, 26th: Bill Weiler wrote: "President Bush spent Friday afternoon and evening in meetings with his advisors and administrators drafting all of the paperwork required for a state to request federal assistance (and not be in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act or having to enact the Insurgency Act). Just before midnight Friday evening the President called Governor Blanco and pleaded with her to sign the request papers so the federal government and the military could legally begin mobilization and call up. He was told that they didn't think it necessary for the federal government to be involved yet. After the President's final call to the Governor, she held meetings with her staff to discuss the political ramifications of bringing federal forces. The Governor decided that if they allowed Federal assistance it would make it look as if they had failed the Governor decided that the Feds would not be invited in." President Bush declared a disaster State of Emergency so millions of dollars for Federal assistance would be available, but without the State Governor’s approval, the President had to wait. The New Orleans Mayor waited to proclaim a mandatory evacuation even though he had 5 days prior notice. Friday, August, 26th: "On Friday night before the storm hit, Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center took the unprecedented action of calling Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY evacuation of [New Orleans] and they said they'd take it under consideration. This was after the NOAA buoy 240 miles south had recorded 68' waves before it was destroyed." Bill Weiler The idea of having an emergency plan has been discussed for 50 years, but the locally appointed New Orleans local director of Homeland Security still didn’t have an effective plan. At this time, anyone could have evacuated the flood areas using a public bus for about the cost of a bottle of water. Friday, August 26th: President Bush preemptively declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005, and continuing. This act authorized FEMA to enter Louisiana. whitehouse.gov Friday, August 26th: The Federal Director of Homeland Security began to set everything up so as to be ready if the Governor would allow it. Saturday, August 27th: National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield becomes so worried about the storm hitting New Orleans that he takes the unprecedented action of calling the Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin. sptimes.com Saturday, August, 27th at 5 p.m.: Mayor Nagin ordered a voluntary evacuation of New Orleans. Saturday, August, 27th: Two days before the storm hit, Governor Blanco asked President Bush to set aside $9 million and to declare a state of emergency. This authorized FEMA to enter Louisiana, but not Federal troops. gov.state.la.us Saturday, August, 27th: Bill Weiler wrote, "Saturday before the storm hit the President again called Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin requesting they please sign the papers requesting federal assistance, that they declare the state an emergency area, and begin mandatory evacuation. After a personal plea from the President, Nagin agreed to order an evacuation, but it would not be a full mandatory evacuation, and the governor still refused to sign the papers requesting and authorizing federal action. In frustration the President declared the area a national disaster area before the state of Louisiana did, so he could legally begin some advanced preparations. Rumor has it that the President's legal advisers were looking into the ramifications of using the insurgency act to bypass the Constitutional requirement that a state request federal aid before the federal government can move into state with troops - but that had not been done since 1906 and the Constitutionality of it was called into question to use before the disaster." seekfind.net