UPDATE Governor Blanco did actually say this. CNN ran a segment about it on Daybreak. The Political Teen has the video clip. The argument now lies back in the bureaucracy that surrounds this whole nightmare. Under the National Response Plan, the Director of Homeland Security or his designee has the power to also call for […]
Now that Michael Brown has resigned as head of FEMA, more questions must be asked about the failures of the Katrina response. Was the failures caused by the former FEMA head or were they just compounded by other failures? Is Michael Brown becoming a fall guy for higher ups in the Department of Homeland Security? […]
Raw Story is reporting the following: Paper: Internal docs show feds ‘bungled’ Katrina response RAW STORY As the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stepped down yesterday, government documents surfaced showing that vital resources, such as buses and environmental health specialists, weren’t deployed to the Gulf region for several days, even after federal officials […]
Further reading into the 426 pages that make up the National Response Plan (NRP) put out by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), I uncovered a few more interesting facts. First it mandates that the DHS The Homeland Security Act of 2002 established DHS to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States; reduce the vulnerability […]
Today I found the National Response Plan (NRP) for the Department of Homeland Security, which was put into effect December 2004. The most pertinent part of this document lies with in the last part under a section called the Catastrophic Incidents Annex (NRP-CIA). Now I would like to quote some significant aspects of this document. […]