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Phenixrising
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Username: Phenixrising
Post Number: 1409
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 8:38 am: | 
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Brown May Reveal White House Katrina Communications
February 9, 2006 12:31 p.m. EST
Andrea Moore - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Washington, DC (AHN) - Former disaster agency chief Michael Brown is suggesting he may reveal his correspondence with President Bush and other officials during Hurricane Katrina unless the White House forbids it and offers legal support.
Brown quit under fire as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency days after Katrina struck. He left the federal payroll November 2.
In a February 6 letter to White House counsel Harriet Miers, Brown's lawyer, Andrew W. Lester, wrote, "Unless there is specific direction otherwise from the president,February 9, 2006 12:31 p.m. EST
Andrea Moore - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Washington, DC (AHN) - Former disaster agency chief Michael Brown is suggesting he may reveal his correspondence with President Bush and other officials during Hurricane Katrina unless the White House forbids it and offers legal support.
Brown quit under fire as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency days after Katrina struck. He left the federal payroll November 2.
In a February 6 letter to White House counsel Harriet Miers, Brown's lawyer, Andrew W. Lester, wrote, "Unless there is specific direction otherwise from the president, including an assurance the president will provide a legal defense to Mr. Brown if he refuses to testify as to these matters, Mr. Brown will testify if asked about particular communications."
White House spokesman Trent Duffy has declined to comment on the letter and instead points to remarks two weeks ago in which Bush avoided directly including Brown among his advisers.
Brown is set to testify Friday at a Senate inquiry about the government's inept response to Katrina.
Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut., blasted the White House last month for what he called attempts to stonewall the Senate inquiry and says he expects Brown, now a private citizen, "to answer every question the committee puts to him truthfully."
} including an assurance the president will provide a legal defense to Mr. Brown if he refuses to testify as to these matters, Mr. Brown will testify if asked about particular communications."
White House spokesman Trent Duffy has declined to comment on the letter and instead points to remarks two weeks ago in which Bush avoided directly including Brown among his advisers.
Brown is set to testify Friday at a Senate inquiry about the government's inept response to Katrina.
Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut., blasted the White House last month for what he called attempts to stonewall the Senate inquiry and says he expects Brown, now a private citizen, "to answer every question the committee puts to him truthfully."
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Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1504
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:25 am: |
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Will Brownie sing:
Yes. To the tune of:
"I heard it through the grapevine." |
steel
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Username: Steel
Post Number: 953
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 6:02 pm: |
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From the Associated Press: (my favorite quote in caps)
"Testifying before a senate committee, Brown said he agreed with members who characterized him as a scapegoat. " I FEEL SOMEWHAT ABANDONED", said Brown.
Because of a focus on terrorism, natural disasters "had become the stepchild of the Department of Homeland Security," he said.
Had there been a report that "a terrorist had blown up the 17th Street Canal levee, then everybody would have jumped all over that," Brown added.
Brown appeared eager to answer any questions, -particularly those that shifted the blame elsewhere."
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Poor Brownie; -Imagine what it must be like to feel "abandoned". Hmmm, -what delicious irony. -At least he isn't having to stand in three feet of slop with no food or fresh water for days on end in the summer heat.
And now consider the conclusion that HE has come to, -ie: -that to this administration it matters not WHETHER Americans suffer but only HOW, (terrorists) as the determining factor in how this government responds, (or not). |
campbell29
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Username: Campbell29
Post Number: 349
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 6:10 pm: |
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What an ••• - first chortles on email about how his outfit is wonderful, then whines about how oppressed he is, then blames everyone around him for the disaster, as if he had no power to do anything to help. Certainly none of these cast of characters is blameless, but he takes the cake for arrogance, hubris and incredible ineptitude. |
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