"I take responsibility"

[Occhidiangela]

I seldom post but this is too good to pass up.....*moves to side to avoid the flames*

   My sister is civilian Military and works with the CDC...part of her job also involves direct contact with FEMA. At this time she is in NO with a task force to consider the problems with the contamination of the environment and protection of the food supplies.

  I spoke with her the Thursday after Katrina and she told me that one of the major problems was taking away the ability of FEMA to react immediately by placing them in the Department of Homeland Security...there was, according to her, miscommunication between the agencies involved which caused massive delays in the mobilization<sp> of aid to affected areas...the other problem, according to her, was the fact that Brown was unqualified for anything of this magnitude of response*I won't say exactly what she said...but it was rather nasty*
   Shadowe
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Ok, ShadowSpirit, is she civilian or military? Spit it out.

Your post smells like rotten fish. You are either trolling or don't have any idea what you are talking about.

The issue of the reorg has already been addressed on this forum, though I don't doubt that any number of us are very unhappy about it. Interagency friction has been endemic in America since about the time the Department of the Treasury was formed.

As to your cheap shots on Director Brown, he apparently did pretty well last year when 4 Hurricanes his Florida in a short period of time.

Oh but according to your genius of a sister, he's not qualified? Right. Go fish.

I find it interesting that you feel a functional/specialist in environmental impact (difficult stuff) is qualified to judge command and control efficiency, other than seeing from the execution side where things trip.

Hey, Shadow, guess what? In every large operation, stuff goes wrong. Military, Civilian, Business. That everyone working their butts off for the past three weeks to sort out the mess on the fly, too often, is sure to add to frustration at the functional level. I've been there, done that, during a major flood. Frustrating, at times.

Your cause and effect assertion is pure, reductionist, moonshine. Brown was surely scapegoated, a slap he took with reasonable grace. Oh, but wait, you tell us the problem was the extra layers of bureaucracy, of DHS absorbing FEMA, but really Brown (FEMA) is the problem? Once again,

WHICH IS IT?

You don't know.

I suggest you either clarify what you are talking about, in detail, or put a sock in it.

Occhi