This press release was issued Sep. 12:
"It's unfortunate that it's come to this, but this resignation was appropriate," said AFGE National President John Gage. "However, Mr. Brown's resignation does nothing to restore the slashed funding for disaster mitigation that FEMA has suffered. It does not undo the damage done by the connected contractors […]
This CNN report has a lot of filler, but it does link to a segment on a "whistleblower". But, it also ends up being CNN reporting on someone who apparently used CNN as a source for remarks by Blanco, which are then re-reported by CNN:
"We told these fellows that there was a killer hurricane heading […]
Could someone kindly look through this long NYT article and dig out the juicy bits? I stopped when I got to the second paragraph:
Ms. Blanco burst into the state's emergency center in Baton Rouge. "Does anybody in this building know anything about buses?" she recalled crying out.
UPDATE: This story is now called "Breakdowns Marked Path […]
From this WaPo article:
Five of eight top Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters and now lead an agency whose ranks of seasoned crisis managers have thinned dramatically since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
FEMA's top three leaders — Director Michael D. Brown, Chief of Staff Patrick […]
