Delay in IDing Katrina dead: Police & FEMA "negotiating over the price."

[rainbow4321]

Knuckleheads at **FEMA** have the nerve to define/use the word "responsibility"....

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/17/katrina.dna/index.html

The identification of bodies has been slowed in the state amid a bureaucratic fight over whether the state or federal government would foot the bill, estimated to be about $13 million.

Earlier this week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency informed state officials that funding the DNA testing was not its responsibility. The agency then backpedaled late Wednesday, saying it would pay the cost of the DNA testing through the Louisiana state police DNA laboratory.

Under that plan, FEMA will pay 100 percent of the cost through November 26. After that, the state would be left paying for about 10 percent of the cost, or roughly $1.3 million.

Bottcher said testing DNA samples has been delayed because the police crime lab and FEMA have been negotiating over the price.

[MADem]

1. This is NOT....AMERICA

Bastards. Miserable bastards. Words fail me.

[rodeodance]

2. we lay ourselves open to the world--in how we treat our dead. First we

see them laying in the streets/water for days/weeks and now this!!!!