Democracy Now vs The Associated Press

[jasmeel]

Is this from the same article? It sounds like 2 different versions of events??? One has Brown blaming Chertoff the other has him blaming state officials.
This is the news report from Democracy Now this morning:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/15/142208

<Report: Chertoff Failed In Overseeing Hurricane Response
In other news on Hurricane Katrina, the Knight Ridder news agency is reporting that it was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff who was ultimately empowered to mobilize the federal response to Hurricane Katrina - not Michael Brown, the former head of FEMA who resigned earlier this week. Internal records show that Chertoff didn't shift power to Brown until 36 hours after Katrina hit. According to Knight Ridder, Chertoff -- even before the storm struck -- could have ordered federal agencies into action without any request from state or local officials. According to the National Response Plan, it was Chertoff - not Brown - who was in charge of managing the national response to a catastrophic disaster. Knight Ridder is also reporting that it has obtained an internal memo that suggests that Chertoff may have been confused himself about his lead role in disaster response and that of his department>

<Compared to this>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050915/ap_on_re_us/katrina_brown
Report: Ex-FEMA Director Blames La.
<snip>NEW YORK - The former FEMA director who became a lightning rod for the sluggish federal response to Hurricane Katrina blamed state officials for the delays, according to a newspaper report.

Michael Brown told The New York Times that within hours of Katrina's attack on New Orleans he told the White House that Louisiana officials lacked an organized response, leading to an "out of control" situation.

Brown said he called Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff and White House chief of staff Andrew Card to let them know the situation was out of control.

His account suggests the White House knew right away that the storm was leaving the coast in shambles.<snip>:wtf:

[NMDemDist2]

1. I see Amy is sourcing Knight Ridder who are the only independent

journalists (of the big boys) left in the country IMO

I'd believe KR over AP any day. KR actually researches and vets whatever the WH et al say.

just my $0.02 :shrug:

[applegrove]

2. Brown is giving his spin - that of an incompetent. Night rider is going

on the bare facts. Quite different eh?