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in the middle of this piece from Bloomberg Business News

"It comes down to leadership, and this effort is without a leader,'' said George Haddow, deputy chief of staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 1998 to 2000. "I don't think they understand how to do this at the top level.'' Haddow is now a lecturer at George Washington University's Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management in Washington. 'Backwater Agency' FEMA's effectiveness was reduced when it was absorbed by the Homeland Security Department after the Sept. 11 attacks, Haddow said, and emphasis shifted from disaster preparedness to countering terrorism. FEMA is now "a backwater agency," said Michael Greenberger, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Health and Homeland Security in Baltimore. "They were so focused on terrorism, they sort of took their eye off the ball here."