Former Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco says the new memoir of former President George W. Bush’s political advisor isn’t accurate about the days following Katrina.

Karl Rove’s forthcoming book says a lack of specific requests from Blanco led the White House to push for the response to be “federalized” - placing the National Guard along with other state and local entities under federal command.

Kathleen Blanco said Thursday she made the state’s needs clear in numerous conversations with the White House officials and that the federal government failed to deliver needed buses or else Army troops that would have untied the state-controlled National Guard for life-saving work. According to Kathleen Blanco, experts on disaster response advised against federalization because it would tie her hands in dealing with the hurricane.