EXCLUSIVE: GROUP TO RELEASE 900 PAGES OF NEW, DAMNING KATRINA EMAILS

[kpete]

EXCLUSIVE: GROUP TO RELEASE 900 PAGES OF NEW, DAMNING KATRINA EMAILS.... DEVELOPING......

Scoop: Group to release 900 more pages of Katrina emails

RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday May 9, 2006

The Center for Public Integrity has obtained more than 900 pages of emails from Michael Brown's account in the days leading up to Katrina; emails which have not been made public up to this point, RAW STORY can report.

The general emails show, the Center will allege, that "While many coastal residents were awaiting rescue from rooftops or wading through toxic flood waters, it was business as usual in the world of money, power and government inside the Washington beltway."

On the day Katrina slammed into New Orleans, a former U.S. senator who had become a registered lobbyist, was trying to Brown to schedule a meeting to complain about a no-bid contract that was heading to his client’s competitor.

DEVELOPING.... EMAILS EXPECTED TO BE RELEASED WITHIN THE HOUR......

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Scoop_Group_to_release_900_more_0509.html

[Catherine Vincent]

1. So will these emails put Brown back in the position he was in before?

Smirk!

[MADem]

2. Sure looks that way....

The emails once again cast unfavorable light on Michael Brown, then head of FEMA.

“I'm at HQ but down in the studio most of the rest of the a.m.... Here we go!” Brown wrote the Saturday before the storm arrived as he prepared for a round of TV and radio interviews. At 6:21 a.m the Monday Katrina hit, Brown was preparing for another major round of interviews.

“Sitting in the chair, putting mousse in my hair...." he wrote to Patrick Rhode, FEMA’s chief of staff.

[crickets]

4. Those messages show such a level of callousness

it makes my blood run cold. I don't understand how people can sink to this level of indecency and inhumanity. It's insane.

[Independent_Liberal]

3. K&R!

[moodforaday]

5. Link to the emails

Raw Story already has the link:

http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/katrina/MikeBrownEmails_Katrina.pdf

(warning: 57 MB)

[Richard Steele]

10. Thanks! Saving that 2 hour download for posterity right now! nm

[ComerPerro]

6. Wonder if the liberal media will give it the time it deserves, without

spinning it to look like "general corruption in the whole government" and "not Bush's fault"

[Breeze54]

7. E-Mails Show Brown Disputed Levee Breach

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3852141.html

May 9, 2006, 6:45PM
E-Mails Show Brown Disputed Levee Breach

By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON —

Former FEMA director Michael Brown disputed that floodwaters had breached New Orleans' levees
in the early hours after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, new e-mails released Tuesday show.

More at link....

Looks like the same story as on Raw Story!

I did a google search by that title and it came up empty.
I searched again and found the above.
:shrug:

Associated Press writer Hope Yen contributed to this report.

The documents can be viewed at: http://www.publicintegrity.org/docs/katrina/MikeBrownEmails_Katrina.pdf

[northamericancitizen]

8. K & R

[autorank]

9. I can dig it!!! All night long. This is great news. K&R

Thank you so much for this post.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0603/S00016.htm