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To: KLP who wrote (11785)	2/13/2006 4:02:54 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541272

We now know there were two sets of problems with FEMA as it entered the near pre-Katrina period. The first was that, unlike Clinton who appointed a professional disaster management team at FEMA, the incoming Bush administration considered it a dumping ground for political payoffs. Brown, his predecessor (whose name escapes me), and far down in the bureaucracy. The parallels for that kind of failure are vividly documented in Larry Diamond's book on the US civilian occupation personnel in Iraq. But are just as vividly displayed in the appointment of a non college graduate to a NASA PR post, from which he assumed he could tell the scientists how to discuss their findings in public. Across the board. The second failure was rolling FEMA into Homeland Security without, apparently, carefully thinking through the interface problems. I'm certain we'll learn a great deal more here as time goes forward.