KATRINA -- TO DEFEND AGAINST TAPES, WHITE HOUSE RELEASES TRANSCRIPT IT
PREVIOUSLY SAID 'DIDN'T EXIST':
Responding to new video in which President Bush is warned about the likely
severity of Hurricane Katrina, the White House "suddenly sent around a
transcript that it previously said didn't exist, from a conference call on
the following day." The transcript includes a second-hand account of Bush's
activities from ex-FEMA director Michael Brown "describing the president as
engaged, watching TV and asking questions."
For months, the White House had said it couldn't turn over the transcript to
congressional investigators, "with officials initially telling Capitol Hill
that someone at FEMA or Homeland Security forgot to push the button on a
tape recorder." On Wednesday morning, however, when it was apparently
determined that making the transcript public would help politically, the
White House "unexpectedly e-mailed the transcript to Newsweek...-initially
without explaining that it was the missing transcript."
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=89605357&url_num=73&url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11626997/site/newsweek/page/2/
Resignation is the only path, George. Bush was the WMD and we knew it.
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