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...dark Saturday night in a parking lot in Lake Charles, La. about 12 hours after Hurricane Rita tore through here, and Columbus, Ohio Fire Department Capt. Jack Reall is briefing his 35-person FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team. "What you see is what you got. We have no idea what's going to happen," except that the promised roof to sleep under isn't going to work out. Nearby, McNeese State University's Burton Coliseum, most recently used to house those affected by Hurricane Katrina, is dark, with standing water and no working bathrooms, and is strewn with personal...
...bold and risky move. At a time when the nation has extensive commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House is pushing the idea of giving the military a more important domestic role. Bush might have chosen a more modest approach like talking up FEMA reforms. But he's gone a much more adventuresome route, one that could well involve revisiting century-old statutes restricting the use of troops at home. To be sure, McClellan indicated that the president is thinking of a lead role for the Department of Defense in disaster relief only when the chaos...
...angry response to Katrina wasn?t just about Bush?s seeming indifference-although that played a part in it. Most of it was surely about the poor response of, as White House officials like to say in a dig at state and local officials, ?all levels of government.? If FEMA does well, if the response works, where Bush gets photographed really won?t matter...
...Despite the domestic upheaval caused by Katrina, Townsend left town on September 9 - the day then-FEMA director Michael Brown was relieved of his duties supervsing the hurricane response - for a previously-scheduled five-day trip for consultations with intelligence chiefs in such countries as Morocco and Afghanistan, as well as with Saudi Arabia's new ruler, King Abdullah bin-Abdulaziz...
Later in his speech, Obama speculated that “corruption and cronyism” were involved in the appointment of former FEMA director Michael D. Brown. But while he told the crowd of prominent lawyers, academics, and business leaders that he shared Democrats’ anger towards the government, he said there is also a danger of “smugness and self-satisfaction...