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...good whack. That's the most efficient way to make heads roll. But in keeping with the government's disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina, even removing the embattled director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is proving to be a tortured, drawn-out affair. Precisely one week after George W. Bush publicly commended FEMA's Michael Brown for "doing a heck of a job," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff sent the deer-in-headlights leader back to Washington and put Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen in charge of relief efforts...
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...