Average' past trails troubled FEMA chief (St Petersburg Times)

[brooklynite]

WASHINGTON - In 2002, a pair of FBI agents showed up at a small, well-known law firm near Oklahoma City, asking questions about Mike Brown, a former employee being considered for a job at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

There, Stephen Jones, a lawyer best known for defending bomber Timothy McVeigh, recalled how he hired Brown fresh from law school two decades earlier. He'd been impressed by Brown's stint on a nearby city council.

...snip...

Brown was pleasant enough, if a bit opportunistic, Jones said, but he did not put enough time and energy into his job. "He would have been better suited to be a small city or county lawyer," he said. Jones was surprised Brown was being considered for job at FEMA but figured it wasn't impossible he could have risen high enough in local and state government to be considered for a job directing FEMA operations in Oklahoma.

The agents quickly corrected him. This was a national post in Washington, deputy director of FEMA, the arm of the federal government that prepares for and responds to disasters around the United States.

Jones looked at the agents, "You're surely kidding?"

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/10/Worldandnation/_Average__past_trails.shtml

[Prodemsouth]

1. Even more damning evidence - had a job with Timothy

McVeigh's lawyer who said you got to be joking when he was told by FBI agents Brownie would be in charge of FEMA. - This is important- you should let people know in your thread header- this is a must read that should be added to the greatest page.

[NJCher]

2. Agreed!

I'm recommending--will others join in? If you read this article, you'll see some nice background and research work by The St. Petersburg Times.

This is what amazed me:

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat who led the hearings, called Brown's time as an assistant city manager in Edmond a "particularly useful experience" because he had responsibility for local emergency services. But Edmond officials reached this week say he was an assistant to the city manager and did not supervise employees.

OK, I'm not in the job market and haven't been for a long time but I know people who are and who tell me about their interviews. This experience would be laughed at or discarded for even a mid-level management job!!! And what's worse is that it eventually comes out that he wasn't EVEN responsible for local emergency services in a place like freaking Edmond!

So not only is his background a lie, even if it were the truth it's a joke!! The guy doesn't even know how to pick a good lie!

This kind of a question on the part of Lieberman smacks of pandering to bushco. Lieberman has got to go, Brown has got to go, bushco has got to go.




Cher

[Prodemsouth]

3. What about that report about Mcviegh's lawyer. The article says

(McVeighs lawyer) and his partner decided to split the law firm THEY DECIDED TO KEEP 35 OF 37 EMPLOYEES, MICHEAL BROWN WAS NOT ONE OF THEM. Damn.. How much more information do we need about Brown not being quailfied for this job. How long will brownie stay on the job. Al Franken says some of those 145 disaters are padded as well. One of the "disasters" was removing a tree that had fallen on a Forest Rangers leg.

[NJCher]

4. Brown's background...

Will it be the subject of Sunday a.m. shows?




Cher