Okay, clearly the White House fed this info. to Ms. Bumiller to show how concerned and angry the President was. But, it really makes them look even more incompetent. The only info. they had was from newspaper reports?:
The president, long reluctant to fire subordinates, came to a belated recognition that his administration was in trouble for the way it had dealt with the disaster, many of his supporters say. One moment of realization occurred on Thursday of last week when an aide carried a news agency report from New Orleans into the Oval Office for him to see.Worst President with the worst administration EVER.
The report was about the evacuees at the convention center, some dying and some already dead. Mr. Bush had been briefed that morning by his homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, who was getting much of his information from Mr. Brown and was not aware of what was occurring there. The news account was the first that the president and his top advisers had heard not only of the conditions at the convention center but even that there were people there at all.
Bottom line: Drownie still funs FEMA.
