The footage — along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press — show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.

The smoking gun... if this isn't the final straw for the Republican party, I'm afraid to ask what more it will take.

Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina - Yahoo! News