Washington — With FEMA facing its deepest scrutiny(click here) in more than a decade, the government watchdog in charge of measuring the agency's performance is no longer assessing its initial response to disasters.
The decision by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General to no longer issue preliminary reports comes as the watchdog took the extraordinary step last week of pulling a dozen largely positive assessments of the Obama administration's initial response to several disasters.
Acting DHS Inspector General John V. Kelly said the reports, pulled last week from the IG's web site, didn't meet proper standards for a government audit.
"We were not confident that the evidence collected (in those reports) was necessary to support the conclusion," Kelly said in an interview Thursday. "It doesn't mean the conclusion was wrong (but) our standard is that it has to be adequately supported. You can't say something without having the evidence even if it's true."...
There is an assessment of countries that occurs on a regular basis to determine the survivability through the climate crisis. The USA is not 15th because of it turned away from the Obama strategic plan for FEMA (click here).
The assessment calls for First World countries to help poorer countries to assist their struggling populations.
March 16, 2018
By Lorraine Chow
Last year, (click here) one of the hottest years in modern history, was also the costliest year ever for weather disasters, setting the U.S. back a record-setting $306 billion in spending aid and relief cost.
But it appears the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the agency that responds to hurricanes, flooding and wildfires, is ignoring a critical factor that exacerbates these natural disasters: climate change....
