Smoking gun memo#1: FEMA waited too long, Fox news reports.

[xyboymil]

if this has been posted already, it needs posting AGAIN:

WASHINGTON — The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina (search) 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 (search), director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff (search) 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

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."

The initial responses of the government and Brown came under escalating criticism as the breadth of destruction and death grew. President Bush and Congress on Tuesday pledged separate investigations into the federal response to Katrina. "Governments at all levels failed," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168634,00.html

What a clueless asshole. :mad:

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Yeah, but even Chertoff has a television

Regardless of Brown's language.

[stillcool]

2. Rove's leaks...

...Brown is taking the fall. It will not work.

[fob]

3. At a time of required CLARITY does brownie mean "near catastrophic

event" as a prophesy of things to come or as in "this fucker's gonna hit SOON!"

[xyboymil]

4. kick