Rachel Maddow just said the someone in administration is INTENTIONALLY

[growlypants]

leaking "damming" evidence about FEMA director Brown. Do you guys think this is necessarily TRUE, and if SO, who do you belive the "leaker" to be and WHY would they be leaking such info?? My only guess is to get the heat off of BU$H

**edited for spelling.

[jasmeel]

1. Is he gonna be a scapegoat?

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I believe that is the case. Now, who do we know in thw WH who is good at

leaking damning things?

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[jsamuel]

12. he is going down to save Bushco

only I doubt it will save Bushco

[SmokingJacket]

2. Someone with a soul? Or someone diverting attention from

higher up?

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Some FEMA person who has a conscience...

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

24. ding ding ding ding

We have a winnner!

[AlCzervik]

4. i wouldn't doubt it in the least and the leaker could be anybody

I'm sure Rove has an assigned leaker for when he's too busy to do it himself.

[DURHAM D]

5. Of course - seems obvious. They need the blame to fall

on someone - not the White House.

[achtung_circus]

6. Well, when it comes to leakers, the field is open.

but anything to get someone to fall on their sword, a la George Tenet, and divert blame from fuckeyes.

[DODI]

7. I think so. I think they believe if Brown hangs, they will be safe.

We can't let that be so.

[walldude]

The why is easy

10,000 dead Americans and who knows how many of those could have been prevented. There are a few righties that are putting their humanity above their paycheck, and it's about time.

[snippy]

8. Rove is making Brown the scapegoat. SOP for the turdblossom. n/t

[Spazito]

9. Here is what she is referring to:

FEMA Chief Waited Until After Storm Hit

WASHINGTON Sep 6, 2005 — The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents.

Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims.

Before then, FEMA had positioned smaller rescue and communications teams across the Gulf Coast. But officials acknowledged Tuesday the first department-wide appeal for help came only as the storm raged.

Brown's memo to Chertoff described Katrina as "this near catastrophic event" but otherwise lacked any urgent language. The memo politely ended, "Thank you for your consideration in helping us to meet our responsibilities."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1102744&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[blonndee]

10. See this post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4669681

I was wondering if someone was doing this.

[jimshoes]

13. Limited hangout

or maybe someone there has a human heart beating in their chest.

[Don Claybrook]

14. Why leak damaging information when all you have to do is listen

to this idiot for 30 seconds?

No, I don't put anything past the administration, but it's not as though they need to damage his credibility any further. I don't believe there's anyone in the nation who doesn't think he's a hopeless buffoon, and most of the nation never had heard of him until about Thursday of last week.

[Cleita]

15. Seems like their plan, if this is so. These guys are very good

at going after the weakest one and stabbing him in the back. Scapegoats are always needed and one of them will do when an outsider isn't available.

Now that they are in control of everything, they don't have any Democrats to blame when things go wrong.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. There's only one answer: Rove

They're taking him down, and he's gonna take the fall for this adminstration's INTENTIONAL genocide, and make it all look accidental and due to Brown's incompetence.

[ThoughtCriminal]

17. What could be worse than we already know?

He was an incompetent but well connected political hack with no qualifications who proved to be a clueless dolt in a crisis.

What could they possibly leak that would be more revealing than that?

[growlypants]

18. but why did Bu$SHIT just say today that Brown's job was secure??

if the WH wanted him out, wouldnt THEY be openly blaming that HORSE JUDGING ASSHOLE?

[jsamuel]

19. they want him to take the fall without it looking like they are making him

take the fall

you know, Rovian stuff

[growlypants]

26. So they want him to resign?? Cuz those freaks arent ever gonna

fire someone THEY appointed. They simply wont do it. Bu$HIT will NEVER admit he has made a mistake, about ANYTHING

[Lindsay]

20. In sports, when the owner says the manager's or coach's job

is secure, it means, "Update your resume post haste."

Since Chimpy is supposedly a sports fan, maybe this holds.

[EVDebs]

21. No need to go ad hominem. Bush 'outsourced' FEMA's hurricane planning and

evacuation response to Innovative Emergency Management, Inc., a.k.a. IEM. See website www.ieminc.com and look up the Southeastern Louisiana New Orleans Disaster Plan

IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana
June 3, 2004
http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Press_Releases/pressrelease060304_Catastrophic.htm

"The IEM team will complete a functional exercise on a catastrophic hurricane strike in Southeast Louisiana and use results to develop a response and recovery plan. A catastrophic event is one that can overwhelm State, local and private capabilities so quickly that communities could be devastated without Federal assistance and multi-agency planning and preparedness."

So, when New Orleans was hit by the Cat 5 levee-breaking Hurrican Katrina, and the FEMA plan paid for with $500K of taxpayer's dollars was supposed to kick into effect...nothing happened. The state and local officials are now being blamed despite being obviously 'overwhelmed' as the Plan describes.

The Disaster Plan is a clear example of typical neoconservative dogmatic outsourcing and privatization AT ALL COSTS. Why, outsourcing has already destroyed so many US jobs in manufacturing and now in 'back office' and IT, it is now literally killing US citizens !

Republicans and their enabler Democratic camp followers will need to investigate this, and soon. Hurricane season has two more months to go.

[Old and In the Way]

29. Interesting....I see James Witt is featured in the opening page

But a note at the bottom, bolded reads:

"*James Lee Witt Associates was a member of the original team, but did not participate in the project."

[FormerRepublican]

31. This information needs to be sent to the media outlets.

Where's that blaster list that someone had?

[EVDebs]

33. It's Bush's outsourcing and privatization policies that are killers

Government Saw Flood Risk but Not Levee Failure
By SCOTT SHANE and ERIC LIPTON
Published: September 2, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02response.html

NYTimes article shows that up until the levee breaks, city officials had evacuated residents as planned to shelters. When the levees broke and flooded the city, FEMA was supposed to 'kick in' with the IEM, Inc. 'catastrophic' hurricane plan as mentioned in my earlier post. This didn't happen. It took days therefore for FEMA to eventually get its act together and get buses into New Orleans. When they DID, they contracted out to out-of-state bus charter companies rather than collect buses from all over non-affected areas of Louisiana.

No need to do 'ad hominem' attacks on Republicans at all. Their policies are deadly enough. Outsourcing is a job-killer. Things just went too far policy-wise and this is the result.

[KittyWampus]

22. Rachel Is Incorrect This Time. The Damning Evidence Has Been Discovered

by people looking for answers. It wasn't leaked by the WH.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

23. The most damning thing they have on Brown is:

"Yer doone a great job, Brownie." -Chimp

[burythehatchet]

28. this is the line that will be forever remembered.

and Brownie wil live in the history books as an accomplice to a conspiracy for mass murder. Hope it was worth it Brownie.

[Jackpine Radical]

25. I think Brown was following orders, and if they hang him out

to twist in the wind, he may suddenly become a Dylan Thomas fan, and "go not quiet into that good night, but rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Which is to say, he may just spill some beans on his way out the door. Wonder if he'll get a Medal of Freedom out of it like Tenet did.

[stillcool]

27. ...and it was ABC..that first floated that story...

which is also kind of interesting.

[Stinky The Clown]

30. **If** this is true, it can only be Rove - or one of his stooges.

[incapsulated]

32. Fall Guy Brown

I've been expecting this all along.

[progressivebydesign]

34. Of course they are. They're saving Bush's ass.

Don't worry, Brown will become a lobbyist to the government soon. THey all fucking do when they fall on their sword for Bush.