President Bush Stalls Katrina Probe

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.