EXPOSÉ | "Crisis Mismanagement"| PBS

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Watch this preview of "Crisis Mismanagement," Exposé: America's Investigative Reports, on PBS.
How could one team of journalists be so far ahead of the curve that they discovered over a year before Hurricane Katrina that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was a national disaster itself? Watch the story of the investigation into waste and fraud that rocked FEMA and its head, Michael Brown, long before the agency's failings made front-page national news. Brown dismissed the paper's reporting, but the story wouldn't blow over, as the whole country would become painfully aware of only after Katrina hit.

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FEMA has been long underfunded in Bush administration; and it has been a political personel parking lot, who has no experience of managing disasters. And it has been put in Homeland Secuity Department instead of a seperate agency after September 11, adding a layer of brueaucracy which is an obstacle for speedy response.