Ex-FEMA Chief Brown Blames DHS

[DeclinetoState]

By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
10 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Top Department of Homeland Security officials were told that New Orleans' levees were breached the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, former disaster chief Michael Brown said Friday, contradicting previous statements by agency officials who said they did not know the levees were toppling until the next day.

"I find it a little disingenuous," Michael Brown, who at the time headed the Federal Emergency Management Agency told a Senate oversight committee. "For them to claim that we didn't have awareness of it is just baloney."

Brown, who quit under fire as chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency just days after the Aug. 29 storm devastated much of the Gulf Coast area, blamed the Department of Homeland Security for decisions and policies that doomed FEMA to "a path to failure" that led to the government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina.


More of the blame game at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060210/ap_on_go_co/katrina_congress

"I find it a little disingenuous": channeling Johnnie Cochran?

[TSawyer2112]

Look for Brown to go from MSM whipping boy to MSM darling. I bet he's eventually going to have a book to hawk which I am sure the Yesterday Show and 60 seconds will be more than happy to help him with.

[Warlady]

I watched his ridiculous testimony. What a moron. The buck stopped with him and he totally dropped the ball. It's not all of his fault though. Louisiana's Governor and New Orleans' mayor are the ones who are truly to blame for not doing anything before Katrina hit. From not demanding a mandatory evacuation of the area and using all of those buses to evacuate the sick and elderly to not calling in the National Guard they showed zero leadership. I think they both should be executed.