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WaPo: FEMA leaders "lacking disaster experience"

September 9th, 2005
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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 […]

Top three at FEMA: "Bush cronies"

September 7th, 2005
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WASHINGTON - The three top jobs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bush went to political cronies with no apparent experience coping with catastrophes, the Daily News has learned…
…FEMA's No. 2 man, deputy director and chief of staff Patrick Rhode, was an advance man for the Bush-Cheney campaign and White House. He also […]