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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 …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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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Romeocat / CatHouse Chat:
Four years ago - never forget
Discussion: Isaac Schrödinger
Right Wing Nut House:   9/11: FROM NEWS, TO HISTORY, TO MYTH
Jay / Stop the ACLU:
The Wide Awakes Remember
Discussion: TMH's Bacon Bits
The Mad / Ravings of a Mad Tech:
9/11: My Remberance by Todd D. Miller
Discussion: PoliBlog
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 …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
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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 …
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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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 …
Discussion: Think Progress
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.
atrios.blogspot.com:
Senate Democrats Relief Plan  —  Katrina Relief Plan for Senate Action This Week  —  Although the Congress last week appropriated $10.5 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Defense Department, it is clear much more will be needed given the enormity of this disaster.
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.
NEWS.com.au:
Patients put down  —  DOCTORS working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leave them to die in agony as they evacuated.  —  With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision …
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
statesman.com:
Perry mum on pastor's musings about Katrina purifying  —  Another pastor who attended says comments were offensive.  —  By W. Gardner Selby  —  Gov. Rick Perry spoke at two private events this week where a Texas minister wondered if God sent Hurricane Katrina to purify the nation of sins, including homosexuality.
Discussion: Big Brass Blog and AMERICAblog
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.

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Stars & Stripes:
Thousands walk in D.C. to remember 9/11, honor troops
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Price To Be Paid For Folly
Discussion: The Sideshow
neo-neocon:
A mind is a difficult thing to change: Part 6A (9/11: the watershed)
Elisson / Blog d'Elisson:
CARNIVAL OF THE CATS #77  —  Welcome to the 77th Carnival of the Cats!
Discussion: Elms in the Yard
Washington Post:
Poll Shows Kilgore Ahead of Kaine in Va.
Discussion: MyDD
Lambert / corrente:
Katrina: Republican governance drowns in the bowl of New Orleans
Discussion: QandO, Reading A1 and Chris Floyd
Elayne / Pen-Elayne on the Web:
Bérubéfest 3: The Quest for Pizza
Discussion: BAD ATTITUDES
Time:
Places Where the System Broke Down
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Amy Westfeldt / Associated Press:
Nation Remembers Victims of 9/11 Attacks
Sissy Willis / sisu:
Let's roll! … Where some see crescents, others see apple pie.
Michael Barone / US News:
Blame Aplenty  —  A team of Indiana firefighters …
Michael / mpetrelis.blogspot.com:
FEMA's 10 Regional Directors' Bios
Discussion: Pharyngula and The Countess
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Jack Kelly: No shame
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
Roberts Cultivated An Audience With Justices for Years
Reliapundit / The Astute Blogger:
MORTALITY COMPARISONS REVEAL USA RESPONSE TO KATRINA WAS EXCELLENT
AMERICAN DIGEST:
If peace needs to be purchased with the sword,  —  we should be ready to do this.
Discussion: Kesher Talk
Juan / Informed Comment:
9/11, 7/7 and 8/30  —  On the fourth-year anniversary …
 
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