January 30, 2006
* Advocacy Group Sues DHS For Failure to Release Katrina Documents

Press release: "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today sued the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over its continued refusal to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Katrina-related issues."

Related government documents:

  • Witnesses Testimony, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Hurricane Katrina: Urban Search and Rescue in a Catastrophe, January 30, 2006

  • AP: FEMA Acknowledges Blunders During Katrina (see testimony in link above)

  • National Climatic Data Center: Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters