UPDATED: Bush II; Day 311: Hurricane Katrina analysis

Some excellent thoughtful detailed analysis of what happened down South.

From the NY Time: Must-read 6-page timeline of how federal, state and city officials struggled to communicate and work together during the crisis, and where it just broke down. Certainly this one article doesn't provide all the answers, but it does give you an overwhelming sense that we need FEMA to be given back the leader position in times of such crisis, not the follower position it has been relegated to in changes since 9/11.

Arianna Huffington explains why now is exactly the time for figuring out what went wrong...and assigning accountability. Which is something I have already written about and agree with completely.

Lastly, in case you weren't feeling sad and sorry enough, David Weinberger alerts us to this little fact: Guess who's already landed $30M in contracts to rebuild military bases in Mississippi and Louisiana? If you guessed Halliburton, you guessed correctly.

Feh.

UPDATED: Brad De Long links to a couple of additional damning and damn important analyses.

Posted by elisa at September 11, 2005 03:21 PM | Weekly Round-up