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	If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him. - Thomas Carlyle

Katrina Report Urges Retooled Disaster Plans

Washington Post

Friday 24 February 2006, 12:54 pm
Keywords: Katrina Hurricane Relief , News Articles

By Christopher Lee and Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post Staff Writers

The White House proposed a major restructuring of federal preparedness and response efforts for catastrophic natural disasters yesterday, saying the government's failures in coping with Hurricane Katrina had laid bare the inadequacy of steps taken since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In a 228-page report that emphasized bureaucratic problems rather than failures of leadership, White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend detailed a host of problems in the federal approach to the most destructive natural disaster in the nation's history. The report contained 125 recommendations for improvement -- including 11 critical steps to be taken before the next hurricane season begins June 1.

The report echoed many of the findings of a special House committee, which issued its report last week.

A Senate committee is at work on its own report, and the Government Accountability Office has undertaken a comprehensive review. But there is no independent commission looking into the government's response to the hurricane, as there was after the 2001 attacks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/23/AR2006022300236.
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Mark says: How many damn reports do we need, anyway? Keep them congress-persons too busy to do other damage, I guess.