What's My Motivation? - The Department of Homeland Security is doomed to failure without a structural overhaul. By Fred?Kaplan

What's My Motivation? - The Department of Homeland Security is doomed to failure without a structural overhaul. By Fred?Kaplan: "Within FEMA, budgets were slashed two years running for the office that coordinates disaster-relief and preparedness with state and local agencies. The Army Corps of Engineers, which maintains floodgates, among other things, was also denied urgent requests for increases. One of the few high-level officials whom President George W. Bush has ever fired was Mike Parker, the assistant secretary of the Army for public works, after he testified before Congress in March 2002 about the disastrous effects of budget cuts on the Army Corps of Engineers' water projects."