AP FRIDAY NIGHT CLARIFICATION ON BUSH/KATRINA VIDEO ('OVERTOPPED' NOT 'BREACHED')

The AP via The Drudge Report ^ | March 3, 2006

[new yorker 77]

Clarification: Katrina-Video story ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a March 1 story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing confidential video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing among U.S. officials.

The Army Corps of Engineers considers a breach a hole developing in a levee rather than an overrun. The story should have made clear that Bush was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees breaking.

The day before the storm hit, Bush was told there were grave concerns that the levees could be overrun. It wasn't until the next morning, as the storm was hitting, that Michael Brown, then head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Bush had inquired about reports of breaches. Bush did not participate in that briefing.

[new yorker 77]

So true.

[Gordongekko909]

I actually saw a picture of the President carrying around a copy of Bernie Goldberg's Bias. This was pre-9/11. I'll see if I can find it...

[pissant]

Did Brit do this on the grapevine??

[jdm]

Oh, my heart. I'm havin' the big one!

[Brilliant]

And today they played an audioclip in which Blanco stated that the levees had not been breeched, when in fact they had. Just one lie after another.

[hole_n_one]

[FreedomNeocon]

Did they report the person who pushed the story (at the AP)used to be at 60min II before getting fired over the Rather debacle??

[meanie monster]

[new yorker 77]

Who was that?

[the_Watchman]

Brit Hume referred to this problem with the AP report several times during his program. Brit seemed really peeved at AP. FOX news reported the difference between the AP account and what really went on.

Brit also complained that AP incorrectly reported that the videos were just released. He stated that all the news agencies, including FOX, had been at these conferences and had access to the video.

[jdm]

Thanks. I've been lurking since November 1997, though. Ha! { I wish }

[Gordongekko909]

Here it is.

[Libertarian444]

[pissant]

Bush said the other day how pleased he was with the rise of the alternative media, and he carried Bias (Bernie Goldburg?) prominently for th ecameras a couple few years back. He doesn't need to call them liars, that's our job.

[new yorker 77]

[Gordongekko909]

Heh. My user ID rules.

[hole_n_one]

Olbermann: A red herring; too complicated

NY Daily News Tom DeFrank: WH simply fuzzying up reality; pure semantics

[Gordongekko909]

Correct! See 26 and 32.

[new yorker 77]

That movie Wall Street was good.

Now we get Sheepback Mountain.

[hole_n_one]

I win.