In 2001, I joined the George W. Bush administration as an Assistant Director of the Information Technology Services Directorate and Chief Information Officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Although a political appointee, I wasn’t a high-powered donor or political supporter. Coincidentally, I had worked for Mr. Bush decades earlier as a volunteer for his unsuccessful campaign in 1978 for the U.S. Congress. He was a newlywed in his first run for public office, and I was a coll...