IEM - Innovative Emergency Management - a private "risk management" firm. A client of the Livingstone Group, a P.R. lobby based in D.C. founded by a Louisiana Republican. IEM was brought on to work on Katrina but did not confer with LSU scientists who'd long been saying the city and levies were not prepared for a category 4 or 5 hurricane.
"Science was ignored" said on LSU scientist.
The evacuation - woefully inadequate - was called a complete success at the time.
Gardner echoes Jackson's report that no plans were made to help poor people with no transportation. Keep in mind that Louisiana is one of the poorest states in America; Orleans one of its poorest parishes (counties). One Lower Ninth Ward resident did try to evacuate his family, but his car was too small to accommodate his whole family; he stayed behind.
Q: Does the blame go all the way to the top?
A: Definitely. The Stafford Act is Bush's to carry out. The statement that the levies were not supposed to fail was a lie. Bush knew they would fail; scientists had briefed him.
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