AP: Can you tell me where the tape came from?
Fournier: I can't go into detail. I got it from a source in government who was involved in the pre-and-post Katrina effort.
AP: When did you get it? Was it something that just dropped on your desk?
Fournier: I got it [Wednesday] morning. I knew it was something that we really wanted and I had been working on it since the day before [Wednesday] to get it.
AP: Why wasn't it released before?
Fournier: I don't know. You would have to ask the Department of Homeland Security, and the officials with both states, all of whom had the tapes. I don't think Congress had the tapes. It just had the transcripts. That's the other thing we got [Wednesday].
AP: What does this tape tell us?
Fournier: What jumped out to me was the fact that none of what happened surprised state, local and federal officials. They were pretty much predicting what would happen and making all the necessary arrangements to help people recover. ... You could tell they really ran a very good meeting. The question afterwards obviously is what else are they capable of running, because on all levels from the city to the state to the federal government, we now know there were failures to respond.
It goes on and so does Fournier and nothing from the vid or the transcripts make the Bush Admin look good.
Big surprise.
But will the press keep up with this story?
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