- George W. Bush congratulating FEMA director Michael Brown on his response to Katrina. posted by insomnia_lj at 1:40 PM on September 4, 2005
From the exiled FFF:
PLEASE! Search out and archive government websites for the agencies that are primarily responsible for this mess: the great covering-their-asses rewriting of history has already started (re: IEM removing their press releases). It is now the responsibility of well-informed net citizens to make damn sure that the facts and truth are kept at the forefront.
This is going to be a blame-game and buck-passing like none ever seen before. If American citizens don't take control of this information, they are going to lose.
As mentioned in the comments on your first link, the links go to different reports (with different ID #s), not identical reports that have been altered. posted by dobbs at 1:49 PM on September 4, 2005
Hmmm, there seems to be no other difference on the two pages DR-1603 and EM-3212 than the dates and those numbers. Good eye, but still, why? Anyone know what the numbers mean? Do they stand for something outside the site? How do they fit into the site structure?
If they are both meaningful and separate that's acceptable, if odd, if one replaced the other, not so cool... posted by 31d1 at 2:00 PM on September 4, 2005
That refers to a state of emergency: "SUMMARY: This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an emergency for the State of Louisiana (FEMA-3212-EM), dated August 27, 2005, and related determinations."
http://www.fema.gov/news/dfrn.fema?id=4506
...a "major disaster": "SUMMARY: This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of a major disaster for the State of Louisiana (FEMA-1603-DR), dated August 29, 2005, and related determinations."
Other technical differences as well. This time, it doesn't appear to be a CYA exercise. posted by andreaazure at 5:58 PM on September 4, 2005
FFF got the bannination? Man, I gotta keep up. posted by mwhybark at 6:31 PM on September 4, 2005
This is a non-event. The original FEMA dates still exist: the information was simply moved here.
The RI post has been corrected and no longer mentions any FEMA date discrepancies (see the post's comments). posted by cenoxo at 6:58 PM on September 4, 2005
Aha! I'm now up to speed. Carry on! posted by mwhybark at 7:10 PM on September 4, 2005
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- George W. Bush congratulating FEMA director Michael Brown on his response to Katrina.
posted by insomnia_lj at 1:40 PM on September 4, 2005