Deconstructing a disaster
On Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005, a bipartisan joint congressional committee was announced to investigate the response to Hurricane Katrina. The panel was officially created on Sept. 15, 2005 and began taking testimony on Sept. 22. The resulting report, A Failure of Initiative: The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, found failures at all levels of government
• Official 362-page report released to the public on Feb. 15, 2006 (PDF, 6MB)
• Full account of committee's work, including witness statements, appendices and supplements (html)