you gotta be f*ckin' kidding me.

[sophiaserpentia]

The Bush Administration has dropped all pretense of holding an actual "investigation" into the Katrina aftermath. Who do you suppose would be the most biased person possible, the one with the most serious risk to his professional reputation, the one with the most to lose at this point? That's right, you guessed it.

Former FEMA director Michael Brown is being retained by the agency as a "consultant."

Brown was on the Hill today to speak with staff at a special House committee in preparation for his testimony at a Tuesday hearing on Katrina. In the session, Brown said that he was working as a consultant "to provide a review" of Katrina preparations and immediate aftermath, according to two congressional sources.

It is unclear what, if anything, he is being paid. "I would assume he is being paid, yes," an aide close to the committee said on background. But no one at the briefing asked that question of Brown.

thanks to riverheart for the link

Comments

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

I must disagree. Perhaps the members of your church wren't to blame, but certainly there were higher-up elements of FEMA who actively thwarted help coming in. They wouldn't let the Red Cross give out food and water in NOLA. They turned down trucks and buses other states offered to get people out when that was still needed. Later, they stopped the Nat'l Guard from giving out food and water in NOLA. They set up camps for evacuees that looked like the places we put Japanese in WW II until media outrage in the blogosphere shut them down.

Go read some of the posts right after the disaster over at hurricane_fema.

[smilypixie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do admit that maybe higher-ups in FEMA are not totally innocent.