Judge Tells FEMA to 'Get Going' on Aid

Judge Tells FEMA to 'Get Going' on Aid - washingtonpost.com:

A federal judge yesterday called the Bush administration's handling of a Hurricane Katrina housing program "a legal disaster" and ordered officials to explain a computer system that can neither precisely count evacuees nor provide reasons they were denied aid.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, who ruled last month that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had violated evacuees' constitutional rights by eliminating their housing payments without sufficient notice, admonished the government for not moving fast enough to restart the program for between 3,600 and 5,500 storm victims.

"Let me make this clear," Leon told government attorney Michael Sitcov. "Tell FEMA that I'm expecting them to get going on this. Like, immediately."