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On the recordJanuary 23, 2006
Among the offices receiving that memo was the White House Situation Room, which received it at 1:47 a.m. on Monday, August 29, several hours before Katrina made landfall. What happened to that report?
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Senator Lieberman questions the response of the White House to a critical memo predicting the severity of Hurricane Katrina.

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