More BS from Mike Brown: didn't know convention center would be shleter

[onenote]

So Brown is claiming that the Convention Center wasn't a "planned" evacuation site. Well, then explain the fact that when Hurricane Georges came around in 1998, the Convention Center was used as a shelter. http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9809/28/georges.03/

onenote


AP: Brown to defend FEMA's Katrina response

Tuesday, September 27, 2005; Posted: 9:44 a.m. EDT (13:44 GMT)

•(AP) -- Embattled former FEMA director Michael Brown says he was initially unaware of desperate conditions at the New Orleans Convention Center because it was not a planned Hurricane Katrina evacuation site, according to a congressional memo.

[pnorman]

1. Is there a link for Brownie's above statement?

I can't seem to Google it.

pnorman

[onenote]

2. still looking

I originally saw it on cnn.com this morning, but they've moved on to a story about his actual testimony. I thought I found one, but it was an earlier story. I'll keep looking


edited to remove incorrect link

[pnorman]

3. Here's what appeared on DU a little while ago:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/27/katrina.brown.ap/index.html

Close, but not that absurd statement of Brownie's.

pnorman