Ex-FEMA chief: I may tell all about Katrina

[Oilwellian]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former disaster agency chief Michael Brown is indicating he is ready to reveal his correspondence with President Bush and other officials during Hurricane Katrina unless the White House forbids it and offers legal support.

Brown's stance, in a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, follows senators' complaints that the White House is refusing to answer questions or release documents about advice given to Bush concerning the August 29 storm.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/09/fema.brown.ap/index.html

[bullimiami]

1. what the fuck? he will tell the truth unless bush covers his ass?

its right there in black and white.

[Stephanie]

8. otherwise known as blackmail

lol! these cons are all alike!

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Wow! Blackmailing the President!

Heckuva job there, Brownie. Better watch the means of travel you choose.

[Drifter]

3. Incompetence is ...

hardly able to "tell all"

Cheers
Drifter

[Oilwellian]

4. He's gonna testify Friday

Brown is set to testify Friday at a Senate inquiry of the slow government response to Katrina.

"What I wish I had done was, frankly, just either quit earlier or whatever and gone to certain friends that I can't talk about and said we got to fix this -- I mean, what's going on is nuts," Brown said, according to a Senate transcript of the meeting.

:popcorn:

[SillyGoose]

12. What does Brownie mean when he says this about "friends"?

"What I wish I had done was, frankly, just either quit earlier or whatever and gone to certain friends that I can't talk about and said we got to fix this -- I mean, what's going on is nuts," Brown said, according to a Senate transcript of the meeting.

I wonder if he is referring to Bush, Chertoff or someone else. The whole thing sounds to me like he wants to talk, maybe to get some of the heat off of him for the Katrina debacle. I always thought Chertoff got off much too easily in this mess.

I'm curious...anyone know what it cost us to create the DHS and fold FEMA into it?

[blue in ohio]

5. ahhhhh

Georgie's little boy is all grown up and acting just like daddy bush. way to go little brownie way to blackmail the blackmailer. Senate needs to swear him back in and ask him what the fk he's talking about.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Poor baby

[flyarm]

7. he should be hit with subpoena immediately!

some lawyer for a family in N.O. should hit him with a subpoena pronto! before * shuts him up with national security bullshit..he should be put through a deposition now!

come on lawyers..someone do it for the people of N.O...now is not soon enough!

fly

[Beetwasher]

9. Heh? Look for the Bait and Switch

Remember, he's STILL getting paid by Bushco. as a "consultant".

He'll "reveal all" alright. It'll be something like "The President was highly engaged and tried to do everything he could! That's the truth!".

[converted_democrat]

10. WTF is this about?? He's trying to blackmail the boy king?

I wonder just how bad is was..I mean, what kind of advice could * have given him that makes good fodder for blackmail? Whatever * told him to do must have been pretty bad..

[Oilwellian]

11. Well....

Bush was trying awfully hard to federalize the LA National Guard...withold aid until the situation became so dire, the governor would cry uncle.

[MadHound]

13. Well, either Brown, who is still on the Bushco payroll,

Is trying to provide some sort of bizarre cover for his boss, or he has a personal death wish. Because if Brown has these sorts of goods on Bush, and is publicly trying to blackmail the man, well, there have been "suicides" before of those folks who were. . .ahem. . .inconvienent to Bushco.