UPDATED: Latest on the decline of FEMA
Besides the Washington Post story linked above, the Washington Monthly has a whole collection of links to stories about horse lawyer Michael Brown, Bush's pick to run the weakened disaster agency. . . er, I mean, secret government.
UPDATE: Brown has not been fired yet, but has been taken off the Katrina case. Washington Monthly now has links to a couple of pre-Katrina accounts of the rise and fall of FEMA, indicating that the criticisms are not based solely on bad feelings from the recent disaster.
As for the FEMA-as-secret-government conspiracy theories, here are two good pages pro- and con: FEMA- The Secret Government and Demystifying FEMA . I will let you guess which is which. It appears that the claims of scary FEMA powers come, typically, from repeated misquotation of the relevant Executive Orders.
UPDATE: Brown has not been fired yet, but has been taken off the Katrina case. Washington Monthly now has links to a couple of pre-Katrina accounts of the rise and fall of FEMA, indicating that the criticisms are not based solely on bad feelings from the recent disaster.
As for the FEMA-as-secret-government conspiracy theories, here are two good pages pro- and con: FEMA- The Secret Government and Demystifying FEMA . I will let you guess which is which. It appears that the claims of scary FEMA powers come, typically, from repeated misquotation of the relevant Executive Orders.
posted by Jeff Pasley at 4:41 PM
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