Michael Brown lies under oath!

[Pryderi]

Does anyone have a complete list of the lies he told?

He said that Governor Blanco didn't include Orleans parish in her request to President Bush asking him to declare a federal emergency

Is anyone aware of other lies he told, or is there another thread already covering this?

"DAVIS: Mr. Buyer?

BUYER: I would like to ask some questions about the pre- landfall. So I'd like to know why did the president's federal emergency assistance declaration of August 27th not include the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines?

BROWN: Under the law, the governor makes the request for the declaration and the governors of the states specify what areas, what counties they want included in that declaration.

And, based upon the governor's request, that's the recommendation that we make to the president. So if a governor does not request a particular county or a particular parish, that's not included in the request.

BUYER: All right.

Orleans Parish is New Orleans. I was listening to my colleague, Mr. Jefferson's, questions about when they talked about, you know, they asked for this assistance for three days and then president responded the very next day, not the day that it was made -- the request -- but the governor of Louisiana actually excluded New Orleans from the president's federal emergency assistance declaration?

BROWN: Again, Congressman, we looked at the request. The governors make the request by...

BUYER: Let me ask this. Since you went through the exercise in Pam, was that not shocking to you that the governor would excluded New Orleans from the declaration?

BROWN: Yes.

BUYER: When that request came in excluding these three parishes, did you question it?

BROWN: We questioned it. But I made the decision that we were going to go ahead and move assets in regardless because we have the ability to add those parishes... "

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/national/nationalspecial/27text-brown.html?pagewanted=all

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4903734&mesg_id=4903734