Editing TIMELINE (section)

===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2005 August 2005]===
* '''August 29''': Hurricane Katrina makes landfall a second and third time, on the Gulf Coast and in Mississippi, as a Category 4 Hurricane.  Most of the city of New Orleans is flooded, thousands of lives are lost and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages accrue.  FEMA and the Bush administration are widely criticized for their percieved failure to better prepare for and respond to the disaster; especially relevant are issues of race and class.
* '''August 25''': Hurricane Katrina makes landfall just north of Miami, Florida, as a Category 1 Hurricane.
* '''August 10''': Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches. 
* '''August 9''': Though its landing is moved from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Edwards Air Force Base, California, due to inclement weather, successfully Space Shuttle Discovery returns safely home at 0511 PDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight." <br> Rep. Curt Weldon, R-PA. and vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, claims that the Department of Defense had identified Mohammed Atta and 3 other 9/11 terrorists as members of Al Qaeda in 1999, through the actions of a classified military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger," but did not share this information with the FBI. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html? article]
* '''August 7''': During a Congressional recess, President Bush appoints hotly contested nominee John Bolton as the United States' ambassador to the U.N., side-stepping the need to have him approved by the Senate. <br> Saudi Arabia's King Fahd dies; the new king, King Abdullah, is seen as a moderate who will not make many changes to the country. <br> Republican Senators John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham propose a Bill to expressly prohibit cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.  McCain states that the issue of torture is "not about who they are.  It's about who we are."  The Bill frustrates the White House and ammendments force it to be tabled until the Senate reconvenes in September.
* '''August 1''': NASA's MESSENGER probe to Mercury makes an Earth flyby.