Disaster used as political payoff (By FEMA to Pat Robertson)

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<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/343813p-293471c.html" target="top">www.nydailynews.com/front/story/343813p-293471c.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>The Federal Emergency Management Agency has done it again.<br>Already under fire for its woeful response to Hurricane Katrina, the federal disaster agency appears to have turned hurricane relief donations into a political payoff - until it was challenged.<br><br>All last week, FEMA bureaucrats gave prominent placement on the agency's Web site to Operation Blessing, the Virginia-based charity run by controversial right-wing evangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson.<br><br>For anyone wishing to donate only cash, the agency's site listed the names and phone numbers of three groups: the Red Cross, Operation Blessing and America's Second Harvest, a national coalition of food banks.<br><br>That first list was followed by a second, longer list of several dozen religious and nonsectarian charities. This second list was for anyone who wanted to give either cash or noncash gifts. <br> <p></p><i></i>