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Katrina’s Second Anniversary Hurricane George: How the White House Drowned New Orleans – By Greg Palast It’s been two years. And America’s media is about to have another tear-gasm over New Orleans. Maybe Anderson Cooper will weep again. The big networks will float into the moldering corpse of the city and give you uplifting stories about rebuilding and hope. Now, let’s cut through the cry-baby crap. Here’s what happened two years ago – and what’s happening now. This is what an inside source me. And it makes me sick: “By midnight on Monday, the White House knew. Monday night I was at the state Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware that the levees had breeched. Nobody.” The charge is devastating: That, on August 29, 2005, the White House withheld from the state police the information that New Orleans was about to flood. From almost any other source, I would not have believed it. But this was not just any source. The whistle-blower is Dr. Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of th