Sweet Kokopilli in the Morning, Arrest These Bastards!

From the Seattle Times:

Official says feds warned of storms potential
By MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN
Newhouse News Service

BATON ROUGE, La. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, said yesterday that officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security including FEMA Director Mike Brown and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff listened in on electronic briefings given by his staff before Hurricane Katrina slammed Louisiana and Mississippi and were advised of the storm's potential deadly effects....

"We were briefing them way before landfall," Mayfield said. "It's not like this was a surprise. ... I keep looking back to see if there was anything else we could have done, and I just don't know what it would be," he said....

Mayfield said his staff also participated in the five-day "Hurricane Pam" exercise sponsored by FEMA and the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness in July 2004 that assumed a similar storm would hit the city.

Just plain disgusting! They knew, the governor pleaded for help before the freaking disaster hit. The means and time to get these people out of these areas was there, and they DID NOTHING! How much more do we take? How much more do we allow to occur before we frogmarch the whole lot of these psychopathic bastards to prison!