When the levees break
I've repeatedly said that data never goes away. Everyone should assume that if something is once committed to digital memory, it is floating around somewhere, even if it's thought deleted. Sometimes even if you don't think that it's recorded, it might be anyway.
President Bush found that out again with the new FEMA tapes that AP leaked yesterday. They show deliberations that the President and Chertoff had prior to Katrina, discussing the possibility that the levees might break and even that the Superdome wasn't structurally sound.
This would seem to make the President a liar when on September 1st, on Good Morning America, Bush said: "I don't think anyone anticipated breach of the levees...Now we're having to deal with it, and will."
It's also damning that he's seen to not ask a single question during the briefing.
Everything is being recorded. Everything is accessible to someone, someday, somehow. It's a brand new political world when around every digital corner there's a smoking gun shop.
Posted on March 02, 2006
