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Evan Thomas / MSNBC:
How Bush Blew It — Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe. — Newsweek — Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news?
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Mike Allen / Time:
Living Too Much in the Bubble? — A bungled initial response to Katrina exposed the perils of a rigid, insular White House. Inside Bush's plan to show he isn't isolated — President bush was seated in the white house situation Room, watching military and disaster officials beaming …
Cao / Cao's Blog:
Never Forget — Tribute to 9/11. — Tribute in Light. — My husband and I were both working that day, I remember hearing about this from someone who was watching the news in the break room. All day long we were following this news...watching the videos, and amazingly …
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PoliPundit.com, WILLisms.com, Stop the ACLU, Austin Bay Blog, Dr. Sanity and basil's blog
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Jim Lynch / bRight & Early:Never Forget — For the most part I will use this to point …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Louisiana Failed To Follow A Flawed Plan: Florida — Today's Palm Beach Post takes a look at the Katrina response from a Floridian point of view, one that has plenty of experience with hurricane devastation and response. The verdict of Florida's emergency response officials …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Katrina: Incompetence Distilled — The New York Times has a feature story in its Sunday edition that supposedly looks at the frustration of coordinating the local, state, and federal responses to Hurricane Katrina. However, the article by a crew of Times writers instead inadvertently encapsulates …
Palm Beach Post:
Lack of plan hurt Katrina-hit states' response — TALLAHASSEE — One thing Florida knows is hurricanes. — Florida emergency planners criticized and even rebuked their counterparts — or what passes for emergency planners — in those states for their handling of Hurricane Katrina.
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Black-and-blue Brown — Disaster point man has been beat up by jobs, friends say — WASHINGTON - As criticism of him grew this week, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown sent a candid e-mail to family and friends. — "I don't mind the negative press (well, actually …
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Washington Post:
The Steady Buildup to a City's Chaos — Confusion Reigned At Every Level Of Government — Walter Maestri had dreaded this call for a decade, ever since he took over emergency management for Jefferson Parish, a marshy collection of suburbs around New Orleans.
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Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Tape Released: American al Qaeda Member Warns of Attacks — Names Los Angeles and Melbourne as Next Targets — Sept. 11, 2005 — In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the US and Australia.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Terror war all but forgotten on home front — Sept. 11, 2005 — the fourth anniversary of the start of the war. That is, if you believe it's a ''war'' A lot of people didn't want to, even in those first days. — About a week after, one of my local radio stations held a fund-raiser and this is how their trailer for it opened.
Harry / Harry's Place:
Offensive — Those clever people appointed by the government to look into how to stop some Muslim youth turning to Islamist terrorism have come up with one of their first bright ideas. … Sends out the wrong signal? I wonder what kind of signal is sent out by senior Muslims comparing …
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Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Nation Remembers Victims of 9/11 Attacks — NEW YORK - America grieved the victims of Sept. 11 on Sunday as the brothers and sisters of the dead recited their loved ones' names and tearful messages of remembrance to a weeping crowd gathered at the site where the World Trade Center once stood.
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
THE SMART VS. THE STUPID — The smart, in this case, is David Riggs, a Ph.D. in applied economics with whom I became friends when he worked at the Center of the American Experiment, a Minnesota-based think tank on whose board of directors I served for some years, and of which Scott is currently a member.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Geoffrey Lean / Independent:
Cover-up: toxic waters 'will make New Orleans unsafe for a decade' — Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade, a US government official has told The Independent on Sunday. And, he added, the Bush administration is covering up the danger.
Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:
Yahoo - A Good 1940s German Company — I was about to go to sleep until I read this pathetic statement from Yahoo chief Jerry Yang excusing his company's passing information to Chinese authorities which resulted in a ten-year prison sentence for journalist Shi Tao. … Oh, really?