Democracy for Utah and The Raw Story are both reporting that President Bush has been blamed by an Congressional Research Service for his response to Katrina. This is patently false.
My comment to Democracy for Utah reads:
"If you read the report in it's entirety, available from CRS(pdf), you would see that President Bush is also absolved from blame in his response.
"...In response to the Governor's requests, it appears that the President did take the steps necessary to trigger the availability of Stafford Act emergency assistance and disaster assistance, by declaring first a state of emergency, and later a major disaster, and authorizing specific Stafford Act assistance to be made available to the State of Louisiana to respond to the effects of the Hurricane..."
Nowhere in the letter does any blame get assigned to anyone. "
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