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Originally Posted by AKA2D '91
The citizens of the Gulf Coast and the victims of these storms thank you for your opinion and commentary. :blank stare, no comments, moving on:
Here is an article from today's paper. The first "tell all" from inside the Nagin Administration during the storm.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/...lall_book.html |
2D, your post is rather non-sequitur, giving me a blank stare at what I posted, and then posting an article that essentially echoes what I have been saying all along, except IMHO this "tell all" doesn't appear to tell enough:
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The contractor begins to follow Forman and Nagin around, so she asks him if she can help him.
"I'm here to do whatever you or the mayor needs -- anything at all," the man says, according to the book. "I'll even run get your drinks."
Nagin later tells Forman to "stay away from" Jefferson, adding: "I don't trust him." Forman notes somewhat tartly in the book that Nagin endorsed Jefferson in his re-election bid a year later, not long before the congressman's indictment on 16 counts related to bribery and corruption.
While Nagin seems to trust the feds more than the Blanco administration, he's still suspicious. When two military communications specialists arrive in New Orleans to help Forman, Nagin warns her to "be very careful about trusting these people."
Nagin is the central figure in Forman's book simply because she spent nearly all of her time with him. But he's far from the only one who had trouble trusting officials at other levels of government, the book makes clear.
For instance, as Nagin, Blanco and Bush are meeting aboard Air Force One in Kenner on Friday, Sept. 2, Kopplin tells Forman that he has been staying up nights reading the Posse Comitatus Act, a law dating to the end of Reconstruction that says that federal troops may not perform law enforcement, except in limited situations.
As Kopplin begins to talk, he asks Forman to step outside the trailer they're sitting in because it is "probably bugged."
"I've read (the Act) and it's clear the state should be in charge," Kopplin says, according to Forman's account. "The feds are trying to screw us."
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So in one sense we are all on the same page as to the politics involved in Katrina, but on the other hand I don't know why I'm getting looked at like a Sony Betamax VCR (read: They still make you?)