The Daily Background
| FEMA Overhaul Fabricated?
Filed at 4:38 pm, Wednesday December 21st 2005
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
From the AP, via the Guardian:
Meeting notes, released Tuesday by a union representative for federal emergency workers, stated that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told employees that many changes planned after Hurricane Katrina were for publicity purposes.
Chertoff’s spokesman firmly denied he ever made such comments.
The typed notes, purportedly taken by an unidentified official, said Chertoff told the employees the retooling of the Federal Emergency Management Agency “is partially a perception ploy to make outsiders feel like we’ve actually made changes for the better.”
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