ABC has Breaking News banner up: Brown Out

[maddezmom]

SOURCES TELL ABC NEWS THAT FEMA DIRECTOR MICHAEL BROWN IS EXPECTED TO BE OUT
SOON


http://abcnews.go.com?CMP=EMC-1396

will look for a link



Sept. 9, 2005 — Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown, under criticism due to his management of Hurricane Katrina as well as reported discrepancies on his resume, is expected to be out as head of the agency very soon, informed sources have told ABC News.


Brown had virtually no experience with emergency management when he was appointed to the position by President Bush two years ago.

Brown was a friend of Joseph Allbaugh, a former Bush campaign manager who directed FEMA from March 2001 to March 2003. Brown was the deputy chief of FEMA in 2001 and moved up when Allbaugh left.

Before becoming part of the agency, Brown was a top official of an Arabian Horse Association. The secretary of that association says it asked him to resign in 2001.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1111074

[jsamuel]

1. like "fired" out?

[TroglodyteScholar]

33. Like ***"removed from managing hurricane katrina efforts"***

That's what msnbc reports...Don't tell me this clown didn't even lose his job.....

[BeyondGeography]

2. Tears for Brownie

[Imagevision]

62. ROVE TELLS BUSH; " THROW EM A BONE...!

WE DON'T HAVE TO FIRE HIM, JUST GIVE HIM A DIFFERENT TITLE...!


http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[tiptoe]

69. Why not a Bushie Medal of Freedom for Brownie?

If "Bushies" were befitting of Tenet and Bremer, why not Brown? The latter's list of FEMA dis-achievements certainly compares well with those of former "winners"!

America cannot long endure losing top notch patriots like these to the private sector (Carlyle Group?): Who'll be left to continue implementation of the Neocon SOFO (Sabotage of Federal Operations) strategy? Their entire hands-on, monkey-wrench approach for demonstrating the inefficiency and unreliability of federal agency operations could be jeopardized and their ultimate goal of enhancing and promoting the privatization argument undermined. For a cause as noble as privatization, the collateral damage -- the loss of human life and limb, whether in New York or Iraq or New Orleans -- can never be too great.

Just a few Neocon SOFO dis-achievements in the recent past:

1) During 911: stand down of pursuit aircraft and destruction of FAA tapes, sabotaging counter defense that day and covering up exposure of who ordered the stand down.
2) Exposure of Al Qaeda computer-mole in Pakistan, sabotaging an inside operation working directly with Al Qaeda communications code.
3) Pullback of Rangers from Tora Bora, when Bin Laden was contained.
4) Understaffing of soldiers, disbanding of Iraqi army, inadequate armor, 400 tons explosives taken by "enemy"...now IEDs kill most Americans in Iraq
5) Exposure of CIA operative Valerie Plame and sabotage of the Brewster-Jennings intelligence network monitoring WMD proliferation
6) Subsumption of numerous federal agencies --including FEMA -- under the "umbrella" of the traffic-light Dept of Homeland Security: All the better to "oversee" future federal operations going wrong.
7) Subsumption of Intelligence agencies under the "umbrella" of a national intelligence chief (see below, for the potential for future sabotages of operations by 15 agencies..."budget authority" <potential for under-funding> and "coordination" <potential for cherry-picking of intelligence> and "common standards" <potential for homogenizing disparate findings>.
8) FEMA long list of deliberate delays and monkey-wrenching of attempts to deal with Katrina disaster.
Some background of FEMA under Republican, Democrat and NeoconNazi administrations...from Daddy Bush, Clinton to Dubya: Inherit the Wind: George W. Bush and his father’s failed federal agency

9) Sabotage of Democracy in America in Election 2004, with means still in place for future election "steals" (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia...see below)



*National Intelligence Chief:

Bush said that John Negroponte would be his principal adviser on intelligence issues and would have authority over the budgets of the 15 U.S. intelligence agencies.

Negroponte also will have the authority to order the collection of new intelligence, information sharing between agencies and the establishment of common standards, Bush said.

"Vesting these in a single official who reports directly to me will make our intelligence efforts better coordinated, more efficient and more effective," Bush said.

"The director's responsibility is straightforward and demanding," he said. "If we're going to stop the terrorists before they strike, we must ensure that our intelligence agencies work as a single, unified enterprise."

:applause:View Clint Curtis KEY 1-Vote Theft 2-Who's TruthIsAll? 3-TIA Exit Poll Analyses 4-3 control 80% US Vote 5-MADNESS Ohio-Smoking Guns -Conyers
Spread the News

[pointblank]

3. Hey Brownie

You are doing ONE HECK OF JOB!!!!

(now watch this swing)

[dmkinsey]

23. Ka-Ching!

Adios Brownie.
Loser

[Kikosexy2]

4. Like ...

kicked butt out?? or he's leaving to spend more time with his family??

[Wickerman]

5. too late

:cry:

[malaise]

18. That's my view as well

Too fugging late.

[Imagevision]

59. too late? - I totally agree, too little too late---who's next George

we'll deal with you a little later when Fitzgerald announces the indictments!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[madame defarge]

6. Hope they don't stop there...

Keep going UP the ladder and don't stop until they get to the TOP!

[FightingIrish]

10. Now that heads are rolling Cheney may fire the chimp.

[nookiemonster]

"He's leaving to spend more time with his family"

Wait for it.

[KoKo]

7. He will fall on his sword. Bush never fires anyone.

[graywarrior]

8. Out and into some lateral position.

[TerdlowSmedley]

Too bad it could't have happened sooner.

Some lives could have been saved.

[TerdlowSmedley]

15. He's probably leaving to accept the Supreme Court nomination.

[Virginian]

61. After all, he IS a lawyer.

The way Bush rewards incompetence, it may be true.

[wakeme2008]

9. The resume thing

may be the straw that broke the Bushies back :rofl:

[9119495]

Yeah, the deaths were bad, but fudge your resume? God

forbid!

[Supersedeas]

11. Heck of a job -- too bad the Spin didn't work -- thanks for the political

contribution...your medal will be granted in a ceremony with Chertoff sometime later.

[rsdsharp]

60. Exactly right.

He just needs a little time to shower and change for the Medal of Ffffffreedom award ceremony.

[smartvoter]

12. They just asked Scotty and he said "No." nt

[rodeodance]

44. so, maybe scotty is out of the loop?--

[smartvoter]

64. He looked nervous, in retrospect. "How'd you hear this?" Plus, he

probably knew it was pulling him back to Washington, not actually firing him, and the press would have a field day with the attempt to save face...

But then I know everything, as you can see... :-)

[Dez]

13. Thank GOD!!

I see chimpie on CNN now, he's not talking about that though.

[kbm8795]

14. Sacrificial lamb

Now we need to kick DHS's butt too. The American people do not pay out $40 billion a year for a Cabinet position that can't do anything beyond creating color codes and duct-tape wrapping recommendations.

[wanpete]

16. Gosh I hope so....now, what we need to do is a looping replay of

shrub saying "you're doin' a great job brownie"! That will be the only way to still put the owness of * for hiring this stooge.

And if this is true, he will probably resign. *co doesn't fire anyone. Too close to an admission of a mistake!

[Waya]

17. Resigned?...

...Fired? Or just coming out to tell us more bullshit?

[Seen the light]

19. Fantastic news

I wonder if it had something to do with his faked resume online or if it was just another political move.

[Bumblebee]

20. But Brownie! was doing such an excellent job!!!

It was obvious in the briefing. Scottie could not even bring himself to utter his name. It was all Chertoff this, Chertoff that

[lovuian]

21. FINALLY Bush FIRES a absolute NITWIT!!!

FINALLY!!!

[OhioChick]

22. But but but

Brownie is doing one heck of a job! :sarcasm:

[King Coal]

24. Get some film for your Brownies. Like Charmin for example.

[TheCowsCameHome]

25. A promotion is more like it with these crooks running the show

[Vinca]

26. That's a good beginning. How about the next in line?

Isn't he an unqualified, political appointee, too?

[JNelson6563]

27. Good. Who's next?

:shrug:

[deminks]

28. Simple Scotty lied to us in the press conference, then

if Mikey resigns, Scotty lied. Scotty was asked point blank if Mikey resigned and Scotty said "No." :banghead:

[bloom]

29. He is not the only one who should be out.

I've heard 5 of the top 8 have little or no disaster experience.

[Fridays Child]

Prediction: B*sh will not admit that hiring Brown was a mistake.

Instead, the meme will be something to the effect that Brown is voluntarily stepping down because he feels that the media's scrutiny of him is turning much-needed attention away from the problems on the Gulf coast.

Blah, blah, blah.

[Alizaryn]

30. MSNBC just said the same

[deadparrot]

31. Praise Jeebus. If only it had come six months earlier.

:)

[julialnyc]

32. chertoff announcement coming

[MO_Dem]

40. CNN makes it sound like Baghdad Brown

is being kicked upstairs! Like a promotion??

[Spazito]

34. Headline on CNN: Chertoff to announce Vice Adm. Allen will

head relief ops on the ground in NO. Who is Vice Adm Allen? Is he replacing Brown?

Edited to add: Bio of Allen:

http://www.rh.edu/news/news03/commencement03/vadmbio.html

[triguy46]

35. GREAT JOB Brownie!!! n/t

[Jeanette in FL]

36. Is only removed from managing Katrina efforts

We will have to see where he goes, doesn't say he is out of FEMA

[samsingh]

37. wasn't he doing a heck of a job destroying America?

[msrbly]

38. Why?

Did he do something wrong? Bush told me that Brownie's been doing a great job. Besides that, there's rumors on the internets that he's WAY overqualified for the job.

[liberal N proud]

39. Don't let that be the end of the heat

Bu$h is still responsible.
He sat in Crawford and traveled to California and played the guitar while New Orleans sank.

This does not all end with one director, it is much bigger than that.

On Edit:
"Brownie has been doing a heck of a job" GWB 9/2/2005... If he is doing such a fine job, why is he out?

[DoYouEverWonder]

41. Time for him to fall on his sword?

Good one down, only a few hundred more to go.

[julialnyc]

42. he keeps his position, but they get them as fare away from the disaster

as possible.


That makes sense (not)

[nine23]

43. A "lateral" move? As a reward for lying on his resume/CV?

[karlrschneider]

45. CNN saying not "out", just back to D.C.

:eyes:

[Frustratedlady]

46. Fire Whoever Reviewed Brownie's Resume.

In this day and age, it doesn't take many phone calls or keystrokes to check out a potential employee's resume. Are they going to let the others go at the top of FEMA who also weren't qualified?

Is there ANYTHING this administration does that is right? Has anyone compiled a list?

[rodeodance]

49. news confer. at 1:45 percnn. also Cherkoff will be at conference.

[Jacobin]

66. funny you should ask

Lieberman was quoted in the hearings to confirm him that his 'experience as a disaster relief' agent in Edmonds would be 'particularly useful'.......

[geomon666]

47. This is OLD NEWS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601677.html?referrer=email

With Michael D. Brown, the embattled public face of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, taking harsh criticism for the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the secretary of homeland security this week assigned a top Coast Guard official to help bail him out.

Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, the Coast Guard's chief of staff, was assigned on Monday to be Brown's deputy and to take over operational control of the search-and-rescue and recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast. The unprecedented task of coordinating the massive effort was handed off to a leader and expert who was described by colleagues as unflappable, engaging and intensely organized.


This was already set to happen days ago. Brown isn't going anywhere.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

48. So Brownie will be the 5:00 pm Friday Press Drop to Suck up the Oxygen

They are sacrificing him so that there can be a juicy bone for the press for the weekend while the man behind the curtain pulls a few strings and levers.

Fancy that, a 20 plus year "career" all comes down to buying the Bush disaster 15 minutes of breathing space on Sunday.

[Canuckistanian]

50. Mikey, we hardly knew ye...

Buh-bye, asshat...

[Beaverhausen]

51. LOL!!!

[meganmonkey]

52. LINK:

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/12601909.htm

FEMA chief relieved of Katrina duties

LARA JAKES JORDAN

Associated Press


WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, The Associated Press has learned.

Brown is being sent back to Washington from Baton Rouge, where he was the primary official overseeing the federal government's response to the disaster, according to two federal officials who declined to be identified before the announcement

[rodeodance]

54. "And Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" as the crowd burst into applau

from abc news website just now.

Both Time and The Associated Press were told by city officials that Brown was an assistant to the city manager and not an assistant city manager.

A university official told the magazine that Brown was a student at the University of Central Oklahoma (formerly Central State University) and may have been an adjunct instructor, not a professor.

However, the Bush administration continued to support Brown today as President Bush did on his first visit to the scene of Hurricane Katrina.

"And Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. The FEMA director's been working 24 hours," Bush said on Sept. 5 as the crowd burst into applause.

[in_cog_ni_to]

53. Good! Now fire the chimp's ass. And Cheney. And Chertoff.

And Hastert. And Delay. And Frist. And Santorum and...and...

Oh hell, fire 'em ALL!

[rodeodance]

55. whatever the spin. this is an admission by! the WH that they goofed

[rodeodance]

56. nominate

[rodeodance]

57. Fema press conf. at 1:45 (?ET).

[bluedawg12]

58. turdie you're doing a heck of a job

oops...another corpse floated by.

[Douglas Carpenter]

63. that's what it says alright -- let's wait and see

[icymist]

65. I hope that not many Arabian horses will be harmed in the process!

Even though I eat meat, I still am an animal lover!

[Douglas Carpenter]

67. now on yahoo news: FEMA Chief Relieved of Katrina Duties

link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050909/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/katrina_brown

FEMA Chief Relieved of Katrina Duties By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
8 minutes ago

"WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being removed from his role in managing the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and is returning to Washington.

Brown, who has been under fire for the federal government's slow response to the storm that devastated much of the Gulf Coast region, will be replaced by Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, who was overseeing New Orleans relief and rescue efforts.

Asked if he was being made a scapegoat for a federal relief effort that has drawn widespread and sharp criticism, Brown told The Associated Press after a long pause: "By the press, yes. By the president, No."

[ourbluenation]

68. Next!!!!

Bwahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!