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FEMA Emails Detail Brown’s Ignorance

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Hurricane Katrina

More and more, it seems like the outrage against Michael Brown’s leadership was justified.

Michelle Malkin recounts some interesting details:

I received a bit of flack from some of my conservative friends for highlighting FEMA’s inadequate response–particularly former FEMA chief Michael Brown’s embarrassing performance–during Hurricane Katrina. This week, Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and FEMA official Marty Bahamonde confirmed FEMA’s failures once and for all. Bahamonde’s testimony yesterday was especially damning. He was on the ground at landfall and throughout the aftermath…

Malkin has pictures of the emails.

Damning? Oh yes…

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6 Responses to “FEMA Emails Detail Brown’s Ignorance”

Elyas Bakhtiari Says:
October 22nd, 2005 at 9:54 am
Not to mention, Brown’s 30-day contract to investigate the FEMA’s Katrina-failures has just been extended. So the guy is still receiving taxpayer dollars to investigate his own failure.
Justin Gardner Says:
October 22nd, 2005 at 3:58 pm
Whoa. Simply, and sadly, amazing…
Chris Walker Says:
October 24th, 2005 at 4:12 am
Frankly, after reading the scans of the emails, i’m definatly less impressed at the liberal whining about things. I notice only 2 of these
emails directed at Mr Brown himself, realy only one of them of any importance. Ober all though, these emails make this sound like typical government bureaucracy messing things up….again……. Perhaps Brown has some responsibility for not doing much about the bureaucratic bloat, but i’m underwelmed by this overall.
Chris Walker Says:
October 24th, 2005 at 4:32 am
I was just pondering something. How did Marty Bahamonde manage to
send emails with his blackberry? Maybe I am am not remembering corectly, or these devices work on a different system, but, didnt
the hurricaine take out all cell service? Or did they manage to establish
a few emergency cell towers in the superdome?
Justin Gardner Says:
October 24th, 2005 at 8:29 am
I was just pondering something. How did Marty Bahamonde manage to
send emails with his blackberry? Maybe I am am not remembering corectly, or these devices work on a different system, but, didnt
the hurricaine take out all cell service? Or did they manage to establish
a few emergency cell towers in the superdome?

I think they rigged something up so communications could get out. In fact, I remember a story where they did some MacGyver type stuff, but I can’t seem to find it right now.
Meredith Says:
October 26th, 2005 at 11:45 am
Indeed, Justin, they did do some MacGuyver-type stuff. Some rich, genius computer guy, who was living (or visiting?) NO at the time pitched in with all his stuff and helped local gov’t officials rig up an internet connection/phone line.

I either saw that on a documentary on Katrina on PBS, or it was some CBS Special Report that came on before Bush’s speech (where he was in LA with a beautiful back-drop, and he detailed his plans for repairs and rebuilding)

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