Word: fema
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Although Brown was officially kicked upstairs to help prepare for future natural disasters, the move came after nearly two weeks of criticism of his management failure and less than 24 hours after TIME.com reported he had padded his résumé. One instance: in 2002, when he was nominated as FEMA's deputy director, documents Brown submitted for his Senate confirmation hearing--which lasted all of 42 minutes--led Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman to cite the nominee's "useful experience ... as assistant city manager in Edmond [Okla.], with responsibility for police, fire and emergency services." But according to Brown's former...
...press conference last week, Chertoff wouldn't let Brown field questions about the TIME.com report and whether the recall was a prelude to the FEMA chief's resignation. Afterward, Brown told the Associated Press he planned to go home and get "a stiff margarita and a good night's sleep." --By Jeremy Caplan. With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Rita Healy and Carolina Miranda
...been told to vacate the school the weekend of Katrina, and many thought they would simply return after a few days as they had for storms in the past. But classes wouldn’t reconvene until a week and a half later, as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workers from as far away as New Mexico and U.S. Public Health Service staff in bulky camouflage converged on the school...
...FEMA workers, who had volunteered for little pay to take on a job that would ultimately include body collection, waited on metal folding chairs outside the hospital’s entrance. They smoked long menthol cigarettes and squinted their eyes at the track field, where once in a while a Blackhawk helicopter would land...
This is not to say that the federal government’s response has been exemplary; in fact, it has been far from it. Heads should roll at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security, and with any luck public outrage will compel the firing of the untalented hacks who were in charge during the destruction of New Orleans. However, the suggestion that without war (à la Michael Moore’s line of “all our helicopters are in Iraq”), or Bush’s budget cuts, or some...