White House Katrina Report

On February 23, 2006, Frances Fragos Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, released the White House's own Hurricane Katrina report entitled The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned.

The report contains these sections:

• Letter to the President from Frances Fragos Townsend
• Foreword
• Chapter One: Katrina in Perspective
• Chapter Two: National Preparedness - A Primer
• Chapter Three: Hurricane Katrina - Pre-Landfall
• Chapter Four: A Week of Crisis - August 29-September 5
• Chapter Five: Lessons Learned
• Chapter Six: Transforming National Preparedness
• Chapter Seven: Epilogue
• Appendix A – Recommendations
• Appendix B – What Went Right
• Appendix C – List of Acronyms
• Appendix D – Staff Page
• Appendix E – Endnotes

Previously on Feburary 15, 2006, the US House of Representatives had released its report about Hurricane Katrina. The report was entitled A Failure of Initiative: The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina.