that failing by our government. yeah, it was an infrastructure failing. there was a failure in recognizing it had happened and getting people to safety because of it. it was a really specific thing. a specific way the bush administration failed on that. on monday morning the 29ening, the day of landfall, fema had a hock confirming an eyewitness view of a breached levee in new orleans a. fema official. his own agency, fema and the homeland security department and the white house was somehow unable to absorb that information even from their own senior official. and that had fatal consequences for americans in new orleans. here's how that house republican wrote it up. perhaps the single most confirmation of the levees in new orleans, beyond the importance, itself, it determined whether or not katrina would be another bad storm in new orleans or the