Tag: line of thought

Here is the White House’s “Lessons Learned” from hurricane Katrina, with one key part: The National Response Plan’s Mission Assignment process proved to be far too bureaucratic to support the response to a catastrophe. Melvin Holden, Mayor-President of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, noted that, “requirements for paper work and form completions hindered immediate action and deployment […]

Newsweek has obtained new e-mails that Michael Brown turned over to Congress regarding Katrina. These emails show a White House in “Chaos” following the storm: Brown, now trying to restore his image, gave Congress a set of e-mails sent as the catastrophe unfolded. The e-mails, obtained by NEWSWEEK, provide the latest—though still incomplete—picture of senior […]