http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/09/12/fema-chief-michael-brown-resigns/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/09/12/fema-chief-michael-brown-resigns/#comment-2605 Chertoff: We need to keep FEMA - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:30:34 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/09/12/fema-chief-michael-brown-resigns/#comment-2605 [...] Chertoff argued at a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the government’s failures to respond appropriately to Hurricane Katrina last year were caused in part by the agency attempting to act independently, and laid the blame squarely on former FEMA head Michael Brown. [...] [...] Chertoff argued at a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the government’s failures to respond appropriately to Hurricane Katrina last year were caused in part by the agency attempting to act independently, and laid the blame squarely on former FEMA head Michael Brown. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/09/12/fema-chief-michael-brown-resigns/#comment-2604 Good managers hard to find for Homeland Security - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:23:49 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/09/12/fema-chief-michael-brown-resigns/#comment-2604 [...] The Department of Homeland Security has several top-level management vacancies, including director-level postions with responsibilities for disaster management and preventing terrorist attacks. Among the vacant positions are the heads of the Operations Directorate and Science and Technology Directorate, the chiefs of which have recently turned in their resignations, and the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, now being headed temporarily by R. David Paulison, better known as Mr. Duct Tape, after Michael Brown resigned as FEMA chief. [...] [...] The Department of Homeland Security has several top-level management vacancies, including director-level postions with responsibilities for disaster management and preventing terrorist attacks. Among the vacant positions are the heads of the Operations Directorate and Science and Technology Directorate, the chiefs of which have recently turned in their resignations, and the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, now being headed temporarily by R. David Paulison, better known as Mr. Duct Tape, after Michael Brown resigned as FEMA chief. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/09/12/fema-chief-michael-brown-resigns/#comment-2603 Bureaucratic turf wars destroyed FEMA from within - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:50:45 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/09/12/fema-chief-michael-brown-resigns/#comment-2603 [...] Brown, who now says he had planned to resign all along after Labor Day this year, did indeed quit after FEMA failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina. [...] [...] Brown, who now says he had planned to resign all along after Labor Day this year, did indeed quit after FEMA failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/09/12/fema-chief-michael-brown-resigns/#comment-2602 Former FEMA head Michael Brown turns consultant - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:35:02 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/09/12/fema-chief-michael-brown-resigns/#comment-2602 [...] After being forced to resign from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in September amid concerns that he mismanaged the agency, former director Michael Brown announced that he’s going into the consulting business. “If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses - because that goes straight to the bottom line - then I hope I can help the country in some way,” Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions. [...] [...] After being forced to resign from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in September amid concerns that he mismanaged the agency, former director Michael Brown announced that he’s going into the consulting business. “If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses – because that goes straight to the bottom line – then I hope I can help the country in some way,” Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions. [...]

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