House panel will not immediately subpoena White House for Katrina document

You are exactly right. By the time the records are made available, everything damaging in them will be missing, or ( one of the white house's favorite tools )- redacted. Business as usual for these criminals; just happens that they control our country. Sickening.

:hi:

on the way to the '06 congressional elections...same with corruption, ANWAR, the deficit, DSM, and the rush to war....sigh.

Rep. Davis is signing the document now at the Hearing they are having today.

Davis said DOD said they "lost" the document with the initial request for documents which is why Davis is now issuing the subpoena.

There will be a briefing with the White House tomorrow and the Chair will decide about subpoenaing the WH after that meeting.

edit to add link to article

We cannot do our job if we don't get these documents, and we won't get these documents if we don't subpoena them," said Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-La., who sought to get internal memos, e-mails, and other communications from the White House and the Pentagon.

Davis agreed the Pentagon so far had not fully cooperated with the investigation, and should be subpoenaed. He said an immediate legal push against the White House might be premature before lawmakers are briefed Thursday by top administration officials.

The committee, which is wrapping up its investigation and plans to issue its findings Feb. 15, requested hundreds of thousands of documents more than two months ago from the Bush administration, state and locals officials in Washington and the Gulf Coast. Though Davis said the White House has handed over some documents, it has refused others sent to and from White House chief of staff Andrew Card, citing executive privilege.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers also agreed to shelve subpoenas against Mississippi and Alabama officials for now after the states said they were trying to locate all the documents. Louisiana has handed over more than 100,000 documents to the committee

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/14/katrina/main1127177.shtml

the upcomming Capital Hill recess...

How distressing!

to pound the GOP with. Ahhhh... information.

Bush hides all of his. Gee what a suprise.

A House committee investigating the government's response to Hurricane Katrina issued a subpoena Wednesday to force Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to turn over documents but stopped short of sending a similar legal demand to the White House. The subpoena commands Rumsfeld to produce internal records and communications about the Pentagon's response to the Aug. 29 storm, including efforts to send supplies to victims, stabilize public safety and mobilize active duty forces in the Gulf Coast. It requires the Pentagon to deliver the documents, spanning from Aug. 23 to Sept. 15, from Rumsfeld and eight other top military officials by Dec. 30.

Separately, the Federal Emergency Management Agencysaid it would comply with a judge's ruling that FEMA keep paying for hotel rooms for hurricane evacuees until Feb. 7. The agency also agreed to extend the program for eligible storm victims who have not been helped by that deadline.

The subpoenas were one focus of a House hearing that was marked by angry barbs between Gov. Kathleen Blanco, D-La., and Republicans who challenged her about why a mandatory evacuation for New Orleans was not ordered until the morning before Katrina hit. Mandatory evacuations were ordered for coastal parishes south and east of New Orleans before then. "We had mandatory evacuations," Blanco said. "We got 1.2 million people out. We ended up saving another 100,000 people and we lost 1,100. That's the whole story. We got people out."

Rep. Jeff Miller (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla., said Blanco's explanation was "a story that's not acceptable because 1,100 people is one half of the men and women we have lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom." "You lost that many on one day," Miller said. Shot back Blanco: "Then it's not acceptable for us to lose ... soldiers, either." Rep. Harold Rogers (news, bio, voting record), R-Ky., asked Blanco why New Orleans' emergency management and evacuation plans were not followed. "It's detailed," Rogers said of the plan. "All it needed was for the mayor and/or the governor to say 'Let's go.'" "We did that, sir. Don't pretend that we didn't do that," Blanco responded tersely. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers said they were frustrated by the administration's failures to provide the House investigation with internal memos, e-mails and other documents before and after the storm hit.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051215/ap_on_go_co/katrina_congress
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1407033&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

It's sad to say that guy's still the SEcretary of Defense. If he quits, I would still be able to sit easier with Lieberman as Sec. of Defense rather than this guy. Even if Lieberman isn't my favorite guy...

Stealing millions and Iraq War a dismal failure...

Horrible man...