Project Katrina

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) “has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.” Newsweek reports:

But the decision by Lieberman, the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to back away from the committee’s Katrina probe is already dismaying public-interest groups and others who hoped the Democratic victory in November would lead to more aggressive investigations of one of the White House’s most spectacular foul-ups.

During the campaign Lieberman was especially dismayed by the administration’s failure to turn over key records that could have shed light on internal White House deliberations about Katrina, including those involving President Bush. Nothing that surprising from Lieberman, you know backing away from campaign promises after winning an election.