Listening to the media, the Katrina response was an absolute failure by FEMA. http://www.michellemalkin.com/ says so. How much of this is urban myth perpetuated by the media who are frankly too lazy to get the facts before they get the glittering sound byte?
Anecdotes of FEMA failure are legend. In a disaster of this scale, I'm sure we will hear for more.
FEMA's job is to "coordinate" and this, somehow means take charge and lead. Not so.
The job of coordinating the response by people, logistics, emergency medical relief over 90,000 square miles is an awesome task. Managing that when the private relief is coming in with unknown quantity, qualifications or even type in an area with lousy communications and difficult circumstances is doubly tough.
Brown's failure may well have been to try to be too "hands on" in Baton Rouge and not manage the process through his regional managers. His failure may also have been not to drill the hell out of his people so they knew what they had to do and worked "seamlessly." Who knows? I'm sure that the congressional investigation by some of the leading lights of our nation (oops, we are using the congress) will get there by all the political posturing and very few facts.
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