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New FEMA boss is 'Duct Tape Man'
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of MSNBC: Keith Olbermann blog
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8514671/#050912a
In another gesture symbolizing the continued confusion of the federal response, the man President Bush immediately named to succeed Brownie, proves to have been the same FEMA official who, two-and-a-half years ago, suggested that Americans stock up on duct tape to protect against a biological or chemical terrorist attack. David Paulison, then the government's Fire Administrator, joined with the then-head of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, on February 10th, 2003, to say that duct tape and plastic sheeting should be part of any home's "survival kit" in preparation for a terrorist attack. That set off a run on duct tape at stores, and widespread criticism of the administration. It might have been the first time after 9/11 that a large number of Americans wondered if the government really knew what it was talking about when it came to disaster preparedness. And the man behind that politically explosive proposal, has just been named to succeed the man who had been the face of the politically explosive response to Hurricane Katrina.
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