View Full Version : A vote of "confidence" for FEMA director



PUGalicious
09-07-2005, 05:07 PM
Homeland Security secretary shows his confidence in Brown by appointing a real expert to "help bail him out."

From the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601677.html?nav=rss_politics):


Coast Guard's Chief of Staff To Assist FEMA Head Brown By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 7, 2005; Page A23

With Michael D. Brown, the embattled public face of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, taking harsh criticism for the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the secretary of homeland security this week assigned a top Coast Guard official to help bail him out.

Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, the Coast Guard's chief of staff, was assigned on Monday to be Brown's deputy and to take over operational control of the search-and-rescue and recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast. The unprecedented task of coordinating the massive effort was handed off to a leader and expert who was described by colleagues as unflappable, engaging and intensely organized.

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