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brettdale

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Mon Sep-05-05 08:14 PM
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Storm Exposed Disarray at the Top

Storm Exposed Disarray at the Top

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301653.html

The killer hurricane and flood that devastated the Gulf Coast last week exposed fatal weaknesses in a federal disaster response system retooled after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to handle just such a cataclysmic event.

Despite four years and tens of billions of dollars spent preparing for the worst, the federal government was not ready when it came at daybreak on Monday, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former senior officials and outside experts

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Spazito

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Mon Sep-05-05 08:27 PM
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1. Wow, that is the most comprehensive, scathing article yet!

Thanks for posting it!

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Spazito

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Mon Sep-05-05 08:41 PM
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2. Kick, damn it, a must read!

:kick:

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Bernardo de La Paz

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Mon Sep-05-05 08:47 PM
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3. "Devastating Indictment"

If Hurricane Katrina represented a real-life rehearsal of sorts, the response suggested to many that the nation is not ready to handle a terrorist attack of similar dimensions. "This is what the department was supposed to be all about," said Clark Kent Ervin, DHS's former inspector general. "Instead, it obviously raises very serious, troubling questions about whether the government would be prepared if this were a terrorist attack. It's a devastating indictment of this department's performance four years after 9/11."

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