La. Gov. Appoints James Lee Witt to Oversee Recovery
It's official. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has appointed former FEMA director James Lee Witt to oversee the recovery of New Orleans. The Vice-Chairman and Senior Advisor's to Witt's firm is Gen. Wesley Clark.
Last Night in Little Rock wrote about Mr. Witt two days ago at TalkLeft, asking, Where Is James Witt When We Need Him?
FEMA is now just another bureaucratic level within the Department of Homeland Security. It has become a dinosaur stuck in the tar pits, and it is dying before our eyes.
James Lee Witt, an Arkansan, was FEMA Director under President Clinton, and he had the cojones to immediately go to the scene and take control. Clinton gave him power, and he used it for the national good. We were served well by him. In any natural disaster, he was there, he was on TV telling us what was going on, and he got things done. He did not sit on his hands in a Washington office getting information from CNN or FoxNews. James Lee Witt works in Little Rock, and I'll bet my house he's working on this disaster somehow. If he ran FEMA, the response would be markedly different, instead of the "what do I do now?" look of Michael Chertoff we see today.
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