With outrage still building over the excruciatingly inadequate federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is facing a political storm of its own. The question of how FEMA — the government agency most responsible for containing the damage of such catastrophes — seemed to have abandoned hundreds of thousands of suffering Americans […]
Jon Elliston
Jon Elliston is an Asheville, N.C.-based writer
who specializes in national-security topics.
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A disaster waiting to happen
Fridays don’t get much busier than this. It’s the morning of Sept. 3, and Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C, is running at full clip, having mobilized a cadre of disaster-response specialists in its National Emergency Operations Center the day before. “This is our ‘war room,’” a FEMA employee explains. “Right now we’re […]
