Senators: White House Stalls Katrina Probe - Yahoo! News

Senators: White House Stalls Katrina Probe - Yahoo! News: "By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The White House is crippling a Senate inquiry into the government's sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina by barring administration officials from answering questions and failing to hand over documents, senators leading the investigation said Tuesday.

In some cases, staff at the White House and other federal agencies have refused to be interviewed by congressional investigators, said the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. In addition, agency officials won't answer seemingly innocuous questions about times and dates of meetings and telephone calls with the White House, the senators said."