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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.
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