FEMA official fails to cut red tape
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A week after Hurricane Katrina, a FEMA official in charge of streamlining the flow of disaster aid issued a directive that would have cut through the red tape and expedited a staggering 1,029 rebuilding projects and $5.3 billion.
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The administration was unwilling to make another end run around Congressional opponents to keep John R. Bolton.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 9--BILOXI -- Mayor A.J. Holloway said he plans to ask the Biloxi City Council to adopt new elevation requirements recommended by FEMA so the city can keep receiving money from the federal agency.
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Even before the federal reinforcements arrived, a Democratic senator was warning FEMA to do better than past disasters.
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Aaron Walker, press secretary for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, submitted his resignation to FEMA administrator David Paulison Wednesday, according to a FEMA official.
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The contractor that botched construction of a $75 million police academy in Baghdad so badly that it was deemed a health risk has produced shoddy work on 13 out of 14 projects reviewed by federal auditors, the top official monitoring Iraq's reconstruction told Congress today.
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The embattled security contractor is dismayed that the Bush administration hasn't come to its rescue in a Florida civil suit that  could set a dangerous precedent
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The agency is plagued with poor management and persistent internal squabbling, according to the report.
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An independent oversight agency said it could not complete an audit of a $1.2 billion contract to train Iraqi policemen because records kept by the State Department and by DynCorp International, the contractor, were inaccurate and in disarray.
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The failure to appoint an assistant secretary for cybersecurity and incomplete planning are raising questions about how well prepared the Department of Homeland Security is for a cyberattack directed against the nation's critical infrastructure.
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Government pledges for disaster relief are often delayed or forgotten, say organizations.
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The government's effort to consolidate federal agencies' 12 terrorist lists has all but failed, partly because the Department of Homeland Security has abandoned its responsibility to take the lead on the project.
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Former chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fought off fierce criticism Monday that the agency did not do enough to protect September 11, 2001, rescue workers from toxic pollutants.
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Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a hurricane with heavy storm surge this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.
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The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President Bush's promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from its own expert that the equipment would fail during a storm, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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The European Union's all-encompassing approach to the problem of climate change will not work, a Bush administration official says.
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In denouncing the way the Bush administration has denied aid to tens of thousands of victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, a federal judge in Washington last week pulled back the curtain on a deeper mystery 15 months after the nation's costliest natural disaster: