Amazing!

Just moments ago, Newsweek is reporting online that Bush was more engaged in Katrina than - well, even BUSH knew how engaged he was.

We're serious, folks. Just last night, Bush told a national ABC News audience that he didn't know how bad the Katrina situation was until he saw people screaming for hlep on TV. But still, the White House released this new information to Newsweek showing - through thirdhand accounts, of course - how much Bush was on top of Katrina.

I smell bullshit.

Who Knew What?
The discovery of a missing Katrina transcript provides new details about President Bush’s involvement in tracking the hurricane

Updated: 6:17 p.m. ET March 1, 2006

March 1, 2006 - The vacationing President George W. Bush was “very engaged” in monitoring Katrina developments right from the day that the hurricane made landfall, according to Michael Brown, then chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Brown’s comments about the vacationing president surfaced in a transcript of an Aug. 29, 2005, videoconference call produced by Bush administration officials today after they initially told Congress that no such document existed.

During the FEMA-run conference call—one of a series of noon calls in which top local, state and federal officials reported on the progress and aftermath of the storm and government responses to it—Brown says that during the morning of Aug. 29 (the Monday Katrina made landfall near New Orleans) he had talked to Bush twice, “once in Crawford and then again on Air Force One.”

The president “remains very very interested in this situation. He’s obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the [Superdome]. He’s asking questions about reports of [levee] breaches. He’s asking about hospitals. He’s very engaged, and he’s asking a lot of really good questions I would expect him to ask,” Brown told the conference call, according to a transcript which was sent to NEWSWEEK by the White House on Wednesday morning.

White House spokesman Trent Duffy said the newly discovered transcript demonstrates how President Bush “was very much engaged that day and throughout the days following, and senior White House staff was interested in the integrity of the levees.”

Glad he was engaged. Too bad he left New Orleans to fend for itself at the altar.

Comments

[Arthur Riddick]

Yeah, he was "engaged", alright. It's just that what he was hearing (catastrophe) didn't fit with what he wanted it to be (storm that didn't interrupt his vacation). You know how they like to "create reality".

Either that, or he was completely loaded...

[Al Christensen]

So who got the job of faking up the transcript? Do we seriously think they did otherwise?

[oldgringo]

Have you guys checkedx with CNN , MSNBC, or C&L lately....seems that AP outed a very different version of this "spinner"..Ck it out!