[lbo-talk] The unbearable lightness of FEMA

[Michael Pollak]

[I keep thinking I have no more outrage left on that subject but I'm always 
wrong.  My friend Dean pointed this out.]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Katrina-FEMA.html

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    Later, on Aug. 31, Bahamonde frantically e-mailed Brown to tell him

    that thousands are evacuees were gathering in the streets with no food

    or water and that ''estimates are many will die within hours.''

    ''Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical,''

    Bahamonde wrote.

    Less than three hours later, however, Brown's press secretary wrote

    colleagues to complain that the FEMA director needed more time to eat

    dinner at a Baton Rouge restaurant that evening. ''He needs much more

    that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes,'' wrote Brown aide Sharon Worthy.

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Full (which is worth reading) is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Katrina-FEMA.html

Michael