Monday, November 14, 2005
 So abysmal was the federal performance in Katrina, even White House lapdog Davis has to put up a show of conducting oversight of the "failures."
From The Hill Nov 10 2005: "House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) yesterday threatened to subpoena three members of the Bush Cabinet and White House counsel Harriet Miers if they do not comply with document requests issued by his select committee on Hurricane Katrina response.
During a committee hearing yesterday, Davis decried the failure of White House officials to release e-mails and other communication records related to the hurricane and its aftermath. Davis set a hard deadline of Nov. 18 for all federal agencies to comply with his requests.
“If documents aren’t produced by that date, I’m ready to proceed with subpoenas,” Davis said.
Davis chairs the special committee investigating the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina and the resulting flooding of New Orleans.
[Louisiana Congressman Charlie] Melancon also placed copies of the individual draft subpoenas mentioning Cabinet members by name in the committee’s record. Most recently, the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks also was forced to subpoena Bush administration documents.
In addition to the White House, Davis’s investigative committee has asked for documents from the secretaries of defense, homeland security and health and human services and from Miers.
[...]
----- Labels: Katrina
.....---
.....| Posted at 03:54 | PERMA-LINK |
|
FEED
TOTAL411 PODCAST
SELECTED VIDEO ]