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How Reliable Is Brown's Resume? — A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in the FEMA chief's official biographies … When President Bush nominated Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003, Brown's boss at the time, Joe Allbaugh, declared …
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FEMA chief relieved of Katrina duties — Move follows controversy over Brown's qualifications, agency's response — WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, government sources said Friday.
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ABCNEWS:
FEMA Director to Be Out Soon, Sources Say — Under Scrutiny, Mike Brown to Leave Post — Sept. 9, 2005 — Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, under criticism due to his management of Hurricane Katrina as well as reported discrepancies on his resume …
Lara Jakes Jordan / Associated Press:
FEMA Chief Relieved of Katrina Command — WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being relieved of his command of the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina onsite relief efforts, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Friday.
Paula Reed Ward / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Flight 93 marker design picked — Maple trees, wind chimes honor those who died — WASHINGTON — It will serve as a living tribute. With each wind, each breeze, a set of chimes housed in a 93-foot tower will create a different song in memory of the 40 people who sacrificed their lives trying to save the lives of others.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Clueless Memorial Design, Take 2 — The designers of the Flight 93 memorial at the impact site unveiled their effort yesterday. In what seems to be a typical case of cluelessness among memorial designers, the site will prominently feature the religious symbol of the attackers themselves (via Michelle Malkin):
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FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL: CONTROVERSY — The Flight 93 Memorial design, titled "The Crescent of Embrace," was unveiled this week. — Take a close look: — Remind you of anything? — Tom Bevan at the indispensable Real Clear Politics gently raises some questions about the design.
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New York Times:
Political Issues Snarled Plans for Troop Aid — WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - As New Orleans descended into chaos last week and Louisiana's governor asked for 40,000 soldiers, President Bush's senior advisers debated whether the president should speed the arrival of active-duty troops by seizing control …
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Tight Constraints on Pentagon's Freedom Walk — Event Remembering 9/11, Troops to Be Kept 'Sterile,' Limited to Preregistered — Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert …
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
In Poll, Most Say Abandon Flooded Areas — WASHINGTON - More than half the people in this country say the flooded areas of New Orleans lying below sea level should be abandoned and rebuilt on higher ground. — An AP-Ipsos poll found that 54 percent of Americans want the vast sections …
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CNN:
FEMA director Brown recalled to Washington — Official: Coast Guard admiral to coordinate Katrina relief efforts — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen will replace Michael Brown, the embattled FEMA director, as the on-site head of hurricane relief operations in the Gulf Coast …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience — Five of eight top Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters and now lead an agency whose ranks of seasoned crisis managers have thinned dramatically since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Court Rules U.S. Can Indefinitely Detain Citizens — Ruling Comes in the Case of 'Enemy Combatant' Jose Padilla — A federal appeals court ruled today that the president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, holding that such authority …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
The Party of Performance — In the aftermath of Katrina, there's an opening for a different kind of politics in America. The new politics isn't about values; it isn't about settling scores. It's about performance. It's about putting a wounded, shaken country back on its feet …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Where to Point the Fingers — In less enlightened times there was no catastrophe independent of human agency. When the plague or some other natural disaster struck, witches were burned, Jews were massacred and all felt better (except the witches and Jews).
Steve Fainaru / Washington Post:
For a U.S. Platoon in Iraq, Merciless Missions — Days Are Spent Pursuing Enemy, Fending Off Death — BALAD, Iraq — On an asphalt road surrounded by apple trees and date palms, a bomb went off beneath an armored Humvee leading a midnight patrol. The towering fireball, followed by an explosion …