As long as you require the FEMA director to go through two and three levels of bureaucracy to get a decision from the president, you're going to have a major problem.

At least Brown has been in the business for a couple of years. When the chain of command is incompetent or you perceive the chain of command is not in the best interest of the agency, you're duty-bound to go around that chain of command.

What we need to see are concrete measures aimed at getting the bureaucracy to pursue this objective, otherwise all this will be just more rhetoric.

While local, state and federal officials were bogged down in bureaucracy, Connick flew to his native city and personally delivered water and food to survivors.

an enormous new bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work