FEMA Chief Waited Until After Storm Hit

[feminazi]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1102744&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312



"The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents."

[stillcool]

1. WOOOO-WHOOOO

Yes. Smack down.

[nyhuskyfan]

2. Game. Set. Match.

Don't need any more proof than that. Brownie dropped the ball and his boss -- who appointed him despite his blatant lack of qualifications -- was strumming a guitar on vacation.

[Tesibria]

3. AWESOME !!! THey need to release the internal document!!

This will be POWERFUL if they can show the doc. Otherwise, the RW will slam it, of course. They need to release it !!!

T~~

[DELUSIONAL]

4. Looks like the investigation is underway

so now we know . . . we are on our own.

[stillcool]

5. Can't you post this in LBN? n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Well Well.

:yoiks:

[greenbriar]

7. we need to shout this from the rooftops

bush / fema


fuckups.

[Nikki Stone 1]

8. Remember San Diego fires. 2003? Another fed. agency dropped the ball

It was the Forestry Service that could have stopped the fire between 5:30 and 6:00 pm on the night it began near Ramona--when it was a little brush fire. But, Forestry ordered their pilots back a hair after 5:30, saying that policy prevented Forestry employees from acting past the official hour of 5:30.

I'm beginning to sense a pattern.

[burythehatchet]

16. I'm not so sure its a pattern as it is an objective

and that is to create as much confusion as possible. The loss of life is irrelevant. The state of confusion is what is necessary to steal, and to cover up. Its what any good criminal would do.

[Nikki Stone 1]

17. And the confusion in San Diego was to coverup....?

?

[Spazito]

9. Boom!

and he did it with a total lack of urgency and "Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims." Holy crap!

[Rainscents]

10. Send this to everyone!!! Send it to Randi and Ed!!!

[greenbriar]

12. and to Dr Mike Malloy

the Doctor of truth!

[nyhuskyfan]

11. He even called it a "near catastrophe"

Even if you accept that New Orleans missed the brunt of it and the problems there didn't come until later, tell the residents of Gulfport or Biloxi or the smaller towns in Mississippi and Louisiana that have been wiped off the map that this was a near catastrophe.

[snippy]

13. Compare that to FEMA's actions before last year's hurricanes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4666463&mesg_id=4668485

[Spazito]

14. Kick

[Zenlitened]

15. Holy fucking crap. They begin TRAINING after the hurricane has hit?

They receive disaster-response training WHILE the disaster is unfolding?

:wtf:

Gitmo these motherfuckers. Every last one of them.

These are the people, this "administration," who said flat-out that electing John Kerry would place us in danger.

They all deserve to be clapped in irons. Seriously, in this era where citizens can be rounded up and disappeared, these bastards should be thrown in jail IMMEDIATELY. We'll sort their cases out later. Right now, lock 'em up, every last one of 'em. :mad:

... The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents.

(snip)

Knocke said the 48-hour period suggested for the Homeland employees was to ensure they had adequate training. "They were training to help the life-savers," Knocke said.

Employees required a supervisor's approval and at least 24 hours of disaster training in Maryland, Florida or Georgia. "You must be physically able to work in a disaster area without refrigeration for medications and have the ability to work in the outdoors all day," Brown wrote.