Who you gonna believe, him or your lying ears?
WASHINGTON (AP) - Meeting notes, released Tuesday by a union representative for federal emergency workers, stated that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told employees that many changes planned after Hurricane Katrina were for publicity purposes.
Chertoff’s spokesman firmly denied he ever made such comments.
The typed notes, purportedly taken by an unidentified official, said Chertoff told the employees the retooling of the Federal Emergency Management Agency “is partially a perception ploy to make outsiders feel like we’ve actually made changes for the better.” [...]
Chertoff believes that FEMA is not a response agency for disasters. “We essentially should be only doing recovery,” the notes said.
And they’re doing such a good job with the “recovery” in NO and the Gulf states.
Exactly what’s the difference between disaster response and disaster recovery?
They haven’t exactly been doing the recovery part either
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Disaster response is getting the victims out before they drown. Recovery is fixing it so they can go home.
FEMAs mission is to provide an income stream to Republican campaign donors.