MMFA: NY Times Advances Bush Admin. Suggestion that FEMA is 'Better Prepare(d)' to Handle Hurricane Crisis Than Before 9-11

U.S. Newswire, September, 2005

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A September 1 New York Times article by reporter Richard W. Stevenson adopted the Bush administration's claim that "the work done since 2001 to better prepare the nation for a possible terrorist attack" was also "helping" the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) respond to the Gulf Coast crisis that has ensued in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In fact, as noted in recent news reports by the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) and in a Washington Post op-ed, the Bush administration reduced FEMA's status after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by folding the agency into the Department of Homeland Security, which likely hampered the agency's ability to respond to natural disasters like Katrina....

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