Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years (96 page)

48
. Lolita C. Baldor, “Halliburton Subsidiary Taps Contract for Repairs,”
Washington Post
, September 5, 2005.

49
. Simon Romero, “Halliburton, in Iraq for the Long Haul, Recruits Employees Eager for Work,”
New York Times
, April 24, 2004.

50
. Barton Gellman,
Angler
:
The Cheney Vice Presidency
(New York: Penguin Press, 2008).

51
. Michel Crozier, Samuel Huntington, and Joji Watanuki,
The Crisis of Democracy
(New York: New York University Press, 1975), p. 105. Also noted in Peter Dale Scott,
The Road to 9/11
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), p. 69.

52
. Tim London, “Emergency Management in the Twenty-first Century,”
www.homestead.com/emergencymanagement/files/21STCEN2.htm
.

53
. Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt, “Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret,”
Washington
Post
, March 1, 2002.

54
. Sabrina Eaton, “Interior Officials Join Cheney in Mountain Hideaways,”
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
October 7, 2001.

55
. Executive Order 12656, “Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities,” NationalArchives,
www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12656.html
.

56
. Andrew Cockburn,
Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
(New York: Scribner, 2007), p. 88.

57
. Ron Suskind,
The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006).

58
. Rachel L. Swarns, “Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers,”
New York Times
, February 4, 2006.

59
. Al Kamen, “At FEMA, ‘X’ Is for Exasperation,”
Washington Post
, June 24, 1998.

60
. In December, with the country focused on terrorism and on preventing any more attacks, Ma-gaw left FEMA altogether, at the White House’s request, to help start the Transportation Security Administration.

61
.
CNN Sunday Morning
, November 27, 2005.

62
. Brown moved quickly after his arrival in Edmond into a job with the state legislature, where hehelped draft legislation creating the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (OMPA), a little-known public-power entity that he would later chair. The attraction of the unpaid OMPA position was that it allowed him to interact with major bond-underwriting firms, all clamoring for the group’s lucrative business. When Brown was forced to relinquish his seat on the utility board because he had moved from Edmond, he found his way back by persuading the town of Goltry, Oklahoma, with a population of eight hundred and one stoplight, to join the energy consortium and make him its representative.

63
. Author interview with Stephen Jones, October 2, 2005.

64
. Author interview with Karl Hart, October 10, 2005.

65
. Author interview with James Van Dyke, October 7, 2005.

66
. Author interview with Andrew Lester, October 4, 2005.

67
. Sally Kestin and Megan O’Matz, “FEMA Gave $21 Million in Miami-Dade, Where Storms Were‘Like a Severe Thunderstorm,’ ”
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
, October 10, 2004.

68
. Author interview with Kim Jeffery, October 12, 2005.

69
. Julia Malone, “Bill for FEMA water disputed; Norcross business may be ordered to refund$881,000,”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, July 25, 2007.