"Don't let Trump anywhere near emergency alerts" - CNN

[orangecrush]

[Editor's Note: (CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem is the author of "Security Mom: My Life Protecting the Home and Homeland." She is a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, a former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security in the Obama administration and CEO of Zemcar. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN.)]




"Second, because the President has so politicized basic facts about emergency management and made them about himself and his White House's capabilities, we can have no confidence that the benign nature of the test will remain so. This became clear last week when Trump repeatedly used his office to question the validity of non-partisan, George Washington University study on the death toll in Puerto Rico, blaming the Democrats for concocting lies to make him look bad.


In fact, by Sunday, FEMA Administrator Brock Long was doubling down on the President's language, arguing that "I don't know why these studies were done. . . They are all over the place." Maybe, Administrator Long, so that we might determine how many are dead.

Now FEMA and the White House, just days after these surprising pronouncements, want us to have confidence in an objective alert system deployed in a crisis by the very federal agency and White House that has "graded" every single one to date.

The US needs to ensure it can communicate with the population on cellular phones. It is so obvious that, at any other time, it would seem like an essential upgrade for America's capabilities. But the consequences of years of misstatements and lies from the President's mouth and Twitter feed inevitably have consequences for the most anodyne of policies."



https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/17/opinions/worst-person-to-put-in-charge-of-emergency-alerts-kayyem/index.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. Holy lying, ignorant fuck! Don't know why the studies were done? Read the first ducking paragraphs

of them all for the answer!

Ignorant fuckwad. How long until his corruption is exposed?

[orangecrush]

2. His corruption

has been exposed for some time now.