The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have each published articles on Sunday, September 11, that look critically at state, local and federal responses (and lack of response) before during and after Hurricane Katrina hit.
And, just like the state of the people and city of New Orleans on this fourth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it is not a pretty picture.
What follows below the fold is a meta-analysis of these articles, which are Mainstream Print Media's first real attempts to comprehensively document what elected officials and government knew, when they knew it, and what they did, or didn't do about this catastrophic hurricane and its aftermath.
(I may do this as a multi-part diary. because my original draft diary is very long, yet cohesive. I quote and comment a lot - this is really one whole diarly broken up into pieces to manage it correctly.
(I pray the powers that be don't delete.)
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