complicity -- (guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense)

From the article:
Rep. Mary Bono (R-Palm Springs), a leader in the effort to get federal assistance for fire prevention, questioned Thursday why the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not rule sooner.

"FEMA's decision was wrong," Bono said. "The timing couldn't have been worse.... We knew this disaster was going to happen with certainty. It was only a matter of when, and we were trying to beat the clock with removing the dead trees."

Sounds like a republican was unhappy about this. I'm not a big fan of Bono's widow. I think she is a glory hound

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SACRAMENTO — The Bush administration took six months to evaluate Gov. Gray Davis' emergency request last spring for $430 million to clear dead trees from fire-prone areas of Southern California.
430 Million. Christ that's almost half a billion. And you wonder why they might have turned them down? The only reason this happend was because of Arson. I'm not excusing the fact of the arsonist but I can understand why they might have turned them down.