FEMA Coverup of Death Count Begins

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Subject: FEMA Coverup of Death Count Begins
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 09:54:17 EDT
From: CHERDAV44@aol.com
To: apfn@apfn.org

from Cheryl Seal:
What we've all been predicting: coverup of the death count by the Bush administration begins. Same modus operandi as Abu Ghraib: First issue "warning" that upcoming revelations/photos will be worse than anything seen so far (Chertoff already made this statement) and then follow it up with massive censorship, suppressing all further photos. Step three: put the blame on lower level officials and officers while the criminals at the top who are to blame go scott free
FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead
From Reuters

NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. agency leading Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts said Tuesday that it does not want the news media to photograph the dead as they are recovered.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected journalists' requests to accompany rescue boats searching for storm victims.

An agency spokeswoman said space was needed on the rescue boats.

"We have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media," the spokeswoman said in an e-mail.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-photos7sep07,1,5455941.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

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Barbara Bush-Audio http://www.apfn.org/audio/bb.mp3

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (she chuckled)--this is working very well for them. http://www.apfn.org/audio/bb.mp3

FEMA officials wouldn't listen; The scenario was dubbed Hurricane Pam:
America's ordeal
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1562298,00.html

Chertoff blames the Media for his failings

Video
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Meet-the-Press-Chertoff-Blasted.wmv
Mirrored: http://www.apfn.org/Movies/Russert_Chertoff.wmv

Tim Russert grilled Chertoff over the absolute failure of his department in combating the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Russert exposed the lies that have been coming from the administration for their lack of response to Katrina. DON'T tell me that the government gets all its intelligence from the media? Think Progress points out when they actually knew, besides since they apparently do get their intel from the media, then they would have seen what we all saw. Transcripts and more video at the Meet The Press website. http://www.crooksandliars.com/