[Howlin]

In These Times reports, “In June 2004, FEMA privatized its hurricane disaster plan for New Orleans, contracting the work to the Baton Rouge, La., firm Innovative Emergency Management (IEM) whose motto is “Managing Risk in a Complex World.”

One blog reports that after Katrina hit, IEM removed the press release announcing their contract from their website. Privatization often means giving the job to the lowest bidder, not the best provider of services.

MarMeme, now this is getting interesting!

[claudiustg]

The press release is there now:

http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Press_Releases/release.htm

[Dad yer funny]

yuppers to yer post #12!!! So , when do you surmise a reporter will question Bubba about this? I can imagine the Sandy Burglar statement with James's name instead of Sandy's

[alrea]

One blog reports that after Katrina hit, IEM removed the press release announcing their contract from their website

journalists and a few hundred lawyers are already making this complicated enough so blame can be obscured before elections