UPDATE: RED CROSS
February 28, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
Thousands of internal documents from the American Red Cross, released Monday by a Senate committee, reveal disorganization and long-standing inefficiencies at the organization, reports the Los Angeles Times. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, asked for the documents in December, after the charity’s president, Marsha J. Evans, resigned in December amid criticism of the group’s response to Hurricane Katrina. The Red Cross said it is cooperating with the Senate committee, the Times reports.
Also: Ms. Evans’s predecessor at the Red Cross, Bernadine Healy, told the Senate committee she observed “mistrust” at every level of the organization and says that the charity needs “radical surgery,” reports The Washington Post.
(Read The Chronicle’s article on Senator Grassley’s letter and his investigation.)
