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An after-action report by a House investigative committee on the response to Hurricane Katrina concluded that government agencies are bureaucratic, unimaginative, inflexible, and inefficient.(Brief article)

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* An after-action report by a House investigative committee on the response to Hurricane Katrina concluded that government agencies are bureaucratic, unimaginative, inflexible, and inefficient. The committee found that the devastation wrought by Katrina was met by government failure at every level. In preparing for a large natural disaster, "all the little pigs built houses of straw." Congress and President Bush created the Department of Homeland Security in the hope that it would Lad to better coordination among the 22 agencies and 170,000 ...

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