When Bush Goes On Vacation It's Time To Head To The Shelters

When Bush Goes On Vacation It's Time To Head To The Shelters
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Brown blamed Homeland Security, saying that "we were never given the money, never given the resources, never given the opportunity to implement" those reforms.

The timeline released ahead of the hearings showed that the earliest official report of a New Orleans levee breach came at 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 29, just a few hours after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore. Word of the possible breach surfaced at the White House less than three hours later, at 11:13 a.m.

The Bush administration has said it only knew definitively early Tuesday, Aug. 30, the day after the storm, that the levees had been breached, based on an Army Corps of Engineers assessment.

But bush was on vacation, he was busy!