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Via BBC:

Allied Press has obtained video and transcripts of President Bush receiving “very strong warnings” on the safety of New Orleans’ levees against hurricane Katrina. These warnings, given to the President by Michael Brown the chief emergency response official on the eve of Katrina’s landfall, stated there was a chance the levees would be broken. The president apparently responded that “We are fully prepared”.

The video is damning given that four days after the storm Bush commented: “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”