CREW files FOIA request
September 7th, 2005 by JoshCitizens For Responsible Ethics in Washington reports tonight that they’ve:
…sent three Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Department of State, asking for records and communications regarding the federal government’s preparedness and response to hurricane Katrina.
“For government leaders who have claimed to be focused on planning for and responding to emergency situations, the stories coming out of the disaster zones are heart-wrenching and appalling,� Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW said today. “The American people should know what led our government to bungle both the preparation and the response to Katrina.�
You might think the leader of the free world would feel at least some responsibility to determine whose mistakes led to the possibly preventable deaths of tens of thousands of people. But this is the Bush administration that knows nothing but politics and lies. Listen to what Nancy Pelosi related today of her conversation with our dear leader about dangerously incompetent FEMA director Mike Brown:
She related that she urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Brown.
”He said, ‘Why would I do that?”’ Pelosi said.
”I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn’t go right last week.’ And he said ‘What didn’t go right?”’
”Oblivious, in denial, dangerous,” she added.
