Katrina-related accusations and the info behind them
POSTED BY: Geezer
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 03:57
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"HECKUVA JOB" BROWNIE E-MAILED THESE:
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In an e-mail message sent on Aug. 29, the day the hurricane struck, Mr. Brown exchanged messages about his attire with Cindy Taylor, deputy director of public affairs at the agency, according to the report. "My eyes must be deceiving me," Ms. Taylor wrote to him, apparently referring to public appearances he had made. "You look fabulous - and I'm not talking about the makeup."
Mr. Brown, in turn, responded: "I got it at Nordstroms ... Are you proud of me?" An hour later, he added: "If you'll look at my lovely FEMA attire you'll really vomit. I am a fashion god."
Democrats said that Mr. Brown also found time to e-mail his assistant to inquire about a sitter for his dog. "Do you know of anyone who dog-sits," he wrote on Aug. 30, the day after the hurricane struck. "If you know of any responsible kids, let me know. They can have the house to themselves Th-Su." In another instance, on Aug. 29, he sent Ms. Taylor a message that Democrats said suggested he was overwhelmed. "Can I quit now," he wrote. "Can I come home?" A few days later, he wrote a similar message to an acquaintance, saying, "I am trapped now, please rescue me."
MEANWHILE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS STONEWALLING THE SENATE
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The Bush administration is withholding information relevant to a Senate committee investigating federal management of Hurricane Katrina. Invoking executive privilege, the administration has also refused to allow sworn testimony from senior White House officials on the disaster and governmental response... the investigation, conducted by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has been thwarted by the White House from obtaining communications logs, and even dates and times of meetings and phone calls regarding Katrina emergency response efforts. ...The administration had declined to provide testimony from Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff; Card’s deputy, Joe Hagin; and domestic security adviser Frances Townsend. Townsend’s deputy, Ken Rapuano, has given informal, non-public briefings to the committee, but has also effectively been placed under a presidential gag order. In addition, Duffy said that the administration has refused to provide staff member correspondence, including e-mails regarding the hurricane....According to Lieberman, attorneys advised former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) head Michael Brown during a closed-door session not to respond to questions on “whether he spoke to the president or the vice president, or comment on the substance of conversations” he had with White House officials during the response operation. Brown stated, “I’m being advised by counsel that I can’t discuss with you my conversations with the president’s chief of staff and the president.”... Republican Senator Susan Collins, also on the committee, complained of “completely inappropriate” reticence on the part of witnesses who “have told us when we begin to ask about any communications with the White House” that they had been advised not to answer, citing executive privilege.
YOU MAY RECALL THAT BUSH ALSO STONEWALLED THE 9-11 COMMISSION.
HECKUVA JOB, BUSH.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
"HECKUVA JOB" BROWNIE E-MAILED THESE:Quote:
In an e-mail message sent on Aug. 29, the day the hurricane struck, Mr. Brown exchanged messages about his attire with Cindy Taylor, deputy director of public affairs at the agency, according to the report.
"If you'll look at my lovely FEMA attire you'll really vomit.I am a fashion god."
And this criminal is STILL employed by FEMA as a "contractor"... because he did EXACTLY what the Bush Gang wanted....
"Heck of a job, Brownie!"
-Commander in Thief
I wonder whose city is NEXT on the chopping block of the New World Odor? Waco, OK City, 9/11, New Orleans - the devastation is growing exponentially.... Entire US cities are now being burned to the ground by "wildfires" that always turn out to be arson, usually by pyromaniac firemen seeking overtime pay, or White House special operatives....
Imagine what a Pentagon Tsunami bomb could do to USA?
www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/141005weather_modification.h
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www.infowars.com/articles/science/weather_mod_bill_research_tech_act.h
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www.infowars.com/articles/science/weather_mod_bill_to_restrict_weather
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You can read the actual preliminary report here.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06365r.pdf
Not the worst I've seen. In my prior life I read these things all the time, and understand that GAO's brief is to find potential problems. They then recommend solutions. Often these solutions are reasonable, but sometimes they would either cost so much or be so difficult to apply that they are impossible. I wonder how many of the changes they suggested back in their 1993 hurricane Andrew report were never applied, not because they weren't good ideas, but because no one would support the legislation needed to impliment them.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Whoa! A war zone sprung up while I wasn't looking.
Here's my unsolicited 2 cents:
FEMA is a corrupt govt. organization run for profit. It funnels off tax dollars and prevents anyone else from helping while the people die, and the city is destroyed so it can be resold, and redeveloped, for profit. It's govt-corp, and it's democrat-republican. It's Nagin-Bush, and Louisamerica. It's all about taking the people's money and investing in in a scheme to take the people's land and make more money, I think republicans in the bush admin and their corrupt fema appointees worked with democrats in new orleans and liberals on the supreme court for new london white fantasyland. Ack. I'm done. This one, I grant, is all about the money. There is no good here. I don't know who will attack me for this, I suspect it's everyone, but I think it's the truth, a clay pigeon which needed shooting down.
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It would be all about the money if FEMA didn't cost lives. And destroy lives. Tens of thousands of people are still displaced, on the verge of being kicked out of hotels and onto the streets.
Otherwise, the whole scheme to whiten-up NO for speculators stinks.
Geezer, any feelings about how the government should have waited to set up alternate housing? I seem to remember you condoned government inaction.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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Originally posted by rue:
It would be all about the money if FEMA didn't cost lives. And destroy lives. Tens of thousands of people are still displaced, on the verge of being kicked out of hotels and onto the streets.
Otherwise, the whole scheme to whiten-up NO for speculators stinks.
Geezer, any feelings about how the government should have waited to set up alternate housing? I seem to remember you condoned government inaction.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
No thanks. You guys are waaaay too far into Neverland here. I expect the "Black helicopters were seen seeding the storm to steer it towards New Orleans." posts any time now.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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No black helicopters? What kind of cheap ass government conspiracy are you guy's running here?
Geesh, I'm not buying into any conspiracy too cheap to have black helicopters.
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Well, if it will amuse Geezer more, I CAN put in black helicopters! Then he can read the stories and sip his whiskey and everything will be all... bendy... like little lights... (thuds onto floor from recliner)
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Geezer's taken a lesson from his master - never admit failure.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
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Originally posted by rue:
Geezer's taken a lesson from his master - never admit failure.
Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.
Oh, come on. Standard government ineptitude is easily enough to generate failures in certain areas, but far from the conspiracy theories you promulgate.
Governments and the bureaucracies that support them are made up of just common folks. Since you have such distain for common folks, I'd expecct that you would believe that general bureaucratic screwups would be enough to cause problems. I'm not quite sure way you have to bring the "evil plan" meme into it.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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