Subj : Re: It seems not everyone shares the "Blame Bush All The Way" viewpoint...
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 14:01:13

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John I wrote:

> Trouble wrote:
>> Nick wrote:
>>> Ken McElhaney wrote:
  
>>>> And while the federal response was way too slow and disasters of
>>>> this size should NOT be handled by FEMA, but rather the US military
>>>> (which has no buerocracy to get in the way), I do have some
>>>> questions for the local 'n state authorities, namely;
  
>>> I disagree.  I think FEMA is the proper place to handle this sort of
>>> thing but it needs more of a military type heirarchy in which quick
>>> decisions can be made on the spot without a long approval process. 
>>> Of course, any decisions made will not look as good a few days later
>>> but that will happen anyway.
 
>> I'm with Nick, FEMA was created for exactly this sort of thing in
>> mind, however since 9/11 their focus has been on reorganizing with
>> DHS to cope with Terrorism, and a tremendous amount of effort put
>> into continuity of government and disaster recovery excercises.

> Apparently not.

Disaster recovery in the IT sense of the term, this was not one of their 
focuses before 9/11

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