Talk:Criticism of the government response to Hurricane Katrina

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In January 2007, the fired FEMA director Michael D. Brown charged that partisan politics had played a role in the White House's decision to federalize emergency response to the disaster in Louisiana only rather than along the entire affected Gulf Coast region, which Brown said he had advocated. "Unbeknownst to me, certain people in the White House were thinking, 'We had to federalize Louisiana because she's a white, female Democratic governor, and we have a chance to rub her nose in it,'" Brown said, speaking before a group of graduate students at the Metropolitan College of New York on January 19, 2007. "'We can't do it to Haley [Mississippi governor Haley Barbour] because Haley's a white male Republican governor. And we can't do a thing to him. So we're just gonna federalize Louisiana.'" The White House fervently denied Brown's charges through a spokeswoman and Brown's comments have never been substantiated.[21]
 For starters the only citation for this is a dead link.  And on top of that, the paragraph even says that Brown's comment has never been substantiated. Bonewah (talk) 17:18, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Link fixed. I'm not sure what you mean "Brown's comment has never been substantiated" - are you doubting that he actually said that, or do expect someone else from the Bush administration to come forward on this? bd2412 T 18:05, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Only that the paragraph itself says that his claims have never been substantiated, which is like saying "were reporting hearsay". How could it even be substantiated anyway, hes claiming to know what people in the white house were thinking? Is this guy psychic? Bonewah (talk) 18:10, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's why the paragraph says the reports have not been substantiated. However, there's almost no one more central to the government's response than Michael Brown, so his clearly expressed sense of what is going on is worth noting with that caveat. bd2412 T 18:19, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that his views on the matter are relevant, I just think it could be written better. Bonewah (talk) 18:57, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have no objection to clarifying that this is speculation on Brown's part. bd2412 T 19:42, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brown and partisan politics 

message: This citation for this section does not support the statement at all: Later, Michael Brown admitted that he had virtually no experience in emergency management when he was appointed to the position by President Bush two years prior to Katrina. The citation only shows that certain media members accused Michael Brown of having no experience. Brown himself continues to refute that charge to this day. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/katrina-ten-years-later-michael-brown-121782?o=2 Wrecklass (talk) 16:12, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Brown 

message: if the black dead were equal in percentage to that of the overall population, then that means the storm wasn't racist, but kill proportionally to the population. right? 67.176.160.47 (talk) 05:08, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
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Many claimed [who? when?] that on the morning of August 28, the president telephoned Mayor Nagin to "plead" for a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, and further claimed that Nagin and Gov. Blanco decided to evacuate the city only in response to that request. These claims were never substantiated with any recordings, however Blanco did tell reporters the President had called and spoken with her (but not Nagin) before the press conference [which press conference?; citation needed].
Perhaps the press conference is obvious from context, but I do not readily find it. Fotoguzzi (talk) 03:58, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point.  I have tagged the content.  It consists of an unattributed and uncited claim, followed by an uncited questioning of the claims, followed by another unsourced fact.  If nothing shows up to cite any of it it should all be removed. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 17:40, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

text: Fixed.  Thanks for pointing it out. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 13:51, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presidential role 

message: The last paragraph in this Presidential role section has apparently been damaged by an editing error. It currently begins, "Address]]. In that speech, Bush did not mention..." Juniperpaul (talk) 07:23, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  Thanks for pointing it out. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 13:51, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
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message: There's a little weirdness in the section titled, "Investigation of State of Emergency declaration," so I want to explain my edits here.
Firstly, the parenthetical "(In fact, the declaration did not include any of Louisiana's coastal parishes; rather, they were included in the declarations for Mississippi[27] and Alabama.[28])" seems wrong. As far as I can tell, there are no Louisiana parishes included in either of the linked declarations. I suspect this should have been, "rather, they were included in the declaration for August 29th."
Secondly, the section presents a timeline of a governor's letter proceeding a declaration on the 27th. However, the linked letter was dated the 28th. Assuming the section is correct in that the letter was publicized in reaction to the hearing, I suppose the more modest edit is to just point out without comment that the letter had that date.
I came to this page to learn more about the declarations, and I found the section not really agreeing with the things it was linking to, so I want to improve it. I'm trying to keep the edits modest to avoid the No original research rule, so I hope this is acceptable. Crcarlin (talk) 00:41, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
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message: Hello. I am VERY new to Wikipedia, and while looking into an unrelated topic I found this postmortem analysis of the apparent interconnected dysfunctions among government, private sector and even individuals from a person inside FEMA during the Katrina period. I do not know if it meets criteria for inclusion, and would prefer to let an experienced editor judge. Sure hope I'm doing this right.
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