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US Federal Emergency Management Agency

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The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (abbreviated FEMA in the US).

In 2000, it defined three high-risk scenarios for the US:

It was preparing for these three events primarily. However, it was interrupted. After 9/11, 2001, It was merged into the US Homeland Security department, and its funding amalgamated with those concerned with airport security, the no-fly list and other terrorism related expenditures. Since the Iraq occupation is presented as being one of these expenditures, FEMA was competing with this too.

This is widely believed to have reduced emergency preparedness for Hurricane Katrina. The position:FEMA was unprepared for Hurricane Katrina is held by most informed persons who have studied the evidence. Particularly damning is that the Hurricane Pam exercise had more or less simulated the actual events, but the required followup was not taken.

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Cronies at the top

Joe Allbaugh

Joe Allbaugh was director of FEMA during the first two years of the Bush administration. He is a former Bush campaign manager and chief of staff.

In March 2005, he became a lobbyist for KBR, which is now profiting from the Hurricane Katrina cleanup.

Michael Brown

There have been many calls to fire Michael Brown as he seems to have failed and his lack of experience has led directly to the loss of life in New Orleans.

See Also

Michael Brown dkosopedia article.

FEMA Preparation and Response to Hurricane Katrina Articles

Other FEMA articles

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This page was last modified 22:51, 4 December 2008 by Andrew Sylvia. Based on work by dKosopedia user(s) Biscobosco, Sysop, OnlineCorruption and Anonymous troll. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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