A long-time reader writes in with a <$NoAd$>good suggestion …
Josh:
Per your request for reader input on FEMA’s place in current national disaster policy: I have no expertise in this area. My suggestion would be to ask someone who does, namely James Lee Witt himself. His company’s website is here: http://www.wittassociates.com/1205.xml
Wesley Clark, incidentally, is his Vice Chairman.
I’m not a Clinton admirer as you know, but I remember what the pre-Witt FEMA was like. In terms of the difference he made to his agency, Witt was Clinton’s best hire. If the changes he instituted didn’t get institutionalized (for whatever reason) when the Bush people came in that’s too bad, but you can’t overrate the importance of having a first rate person running an agency like that. They are not easy to find.
Not a bad idea.