when DHS was created they gutted civil service and unions'

[Ouabache]

protections for employees right?

Remember how first they (bushco) didn't want a Dept of Homeland Security?

Then when they finally came around and wanted one, and wanted to roll existing departments into it like FEMA, INS, etc., they just had to strip out a bunch of the civil service protections that employees in some of those pre-existing departments had?

There was also a big stink that a bunch of the unionized employees/units could not continue on in the new organizational structure because it would make hiring/firing decisions subject to other review besides review and accountability to bushco alone. hmmmmmmmmm?

Remember all that?

And now we are at an accountability moment, and we get spin about "well, lets not play a blame game" and we find #2 and #3 at FEMA are Public Relations whores, essentially.

So where are the swift firings and accountability that necessitated gutting the civil service provisions and unions?

[Ouabache]

1. one

:kick:

[burythehatchet]

2. excellent observation

I still have the VHS tapes of Sen. Byrd trying to warn the senate about the result of the DHS debacle. Absolutely, they wanted to strip the employees of protection because they wanted to fire the incompetents. "yer doon a great job Brownie"

[Southpaw Bookworm]

3. Was a huge clusterfuck

According to the insider view: You wouldn't believe the things you hear on public transportation in Washington, DC.

And including FEMA in an agency whose mission was homeland security (and thus not emergency management) was a colossal mistake.