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87 Tul. L. Rev. 1245 (2012-2013)

handle is hein.journals/tulr87 and id is 1311 raw text is: ESSAY Crisis Response and Continuity of Operations: A Personal Account of My Experiences During and After Hurricane Katrina Jim Letten* I. INTRODUCTION.......................... ..........1246 II. GEOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHY IN THE EASTERN AND MIDDLE DISTRICTS OF LOUISIANA ......... ............. 1249 III. THE ROLE OF THE U.S. ATTORNEY AND ITS LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS ....................... .....1 251 IV THE CIRP............ ............... ......1 252 A. Preparationsformplementation .......... ..... 1252 B. Lessons Learned.................. ....... 1252 V RIDING OUT THE STORM AND IMMEDIATE CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS IN BATON ROUGE ................... ......1 253 VI. CONTINUING OPERATIONS WITHOUT INTERRUPTION...............1256 VII ADDRESSING LEGAL CHALLENGES AT THE OUTSET .... ..... 1260 VIII PUBLIC MISINFORMATION ABOUNDS .................... 1262 IX. ANGOLA SOUTH Is BORN ................................1263 X. THE CAVALRY ARRIVES FROM NEW YORK CITY ..... ......1 266 XI. GOING IN .........................................1267 XII THE JOC Is BORN ...................................... 1269 XIIL THE FIRST FEDERAL ARREST PosT-HURRICANE KATRINA.......1269 XIV THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAI' S ORDER......... .........1270 XV THE JOC BECOMES OPERATIONAL................ .....1 270 * 0 2013 Jim Letten. Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. J.D., Tulane University School of Law; B.A., University of New Orleans. The following accounts are based primarily on my own recollections and draw from accounts in various sources, including my public testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, the Congressional Record, former-U.S. Attorney David Dugas' and my account of the chronology as set forth in the 2009 U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) publication entitled Cnsis Response and Related Litigation, and various public documents, regulations, statutes, Web sites, and other sources, all of which have been referenced on innumerable occasions in conferences, panels, and briefings on crisis management and continuity of operations by me and other DOJ and federal officials. 1245

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