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Ex-FEMA Head Says Response Hampered by “Fog of Bureaucracy”

HeadlineMar 02, 2006

Meanwhile, in an interview with the Associated Press, former FEMA head Michael Brown dismissed Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff’s assertion that the Bush administration’s response was hampered by the “fog of war.” Brown said: “It was a fog of bureaucracy…My entreaties to the White House about the problems that FEMA was having were falling on deaf ears.”

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