Former FEMA head: Gov’t didn’t tell all on Katrina

By Associated Press
Friday, August 27, 2010 10:12 EST
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Former FEMA chief Brown concedes Washington didn’t tell full story of Katrina’s devastation

Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the federal official at the heart of a firestorm over Washington’s slow response is acknowledging the government’s shortcomings.

Former Federal Emergency Management agency director Mike Brown tells NBC’s “Today” show “there was a disconnect” about what the Bush administration was saying about the situation, and how bad things actually were.

Brown said “there was a mentality in Washington which says you put the best face on everything.” He said information given out by the administration was accurate, but “we never put it in context” with how much still needed to be done to lift the stricken city.

Brown is the man whom then-President George W. Bush famously praised publicly for doing a great job.

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  • Anonymous

    Well Republicans??? Why dont i hear you bitching about this??? AAAAHHHH its because the Bush Regime is responsible. Per usual

  • Anonymous

    Well Republicans??? Why dont i hear you bitching about this??? AAAAHHHH its because the Bush Regime is responsible. Per usual

  • Chriswis

    In W’s defense, it’s hard work playin GUItar, and eatin birthday cake with Grampy McSame.

  • Anonymous

    A disconnect? The bush adm. was in an alter universe! One where the sun shone everyday on sweet litte george’s face, the birds sang and life was just peachy! Kinda like everyday of georges real life. You know the one where holding little georgey responsible for all his misdeeds as a youth was unheard of. The one that kept adversity from his doorstep and no one ever said “No” to george. There were always people to clean up after george, pay off his victims and rewrite a glowing history for sweet little george. You know, prepare him for his term in the whitehouse

  • Nickzaneaw

    Anybody who has researched the Katrina Debacle knows that it wasn’t just a misunderstanding. This is nothing but damage control to try and downplay their major ineptitude & intentional lack of concern for political reasons. People no longer believe that the govt’s mistakes are just that….mistakes. Our govt is calculative and extremely advanced in how to handle any crisis. In fact, we are the most advanced & powerful country in the world. When it goes bad…much of the time it is by design to further whatever their agenda may be. They are not putting the U.S. Citizen first. This is a bitter pill to swallow but most Americans by now have come to this same conclusion. I can only accept stupidity as an answer so many times. Fool me once shame on you…Fool me hundres of times shame on me. Mike Brown reveals very little and wants you to believe they had nothing but the absolute best intentions. uh-huh…sure.

  • Anonymous

    Their First lie was the day after Katrina hit.
    All of them went on TV and said this; “When we looked at the morning News Paper we saw the headline ‘New Orleans Dodges a Bullet”, so we thought everything was fine, we did not know that the levies had been breached”.

    But a simple Google search showed NO PAPER, anywhere in the US, had any such Headline. Every News Headline was about the disaster and NOT a near-miss.

  • Kurt O

    Brown said “there was a mentality in Washington which says you put the best face on everything.” He said information given out by the administration was accurate, but “we never put it in context” with how much still needed to be done to lift the stricken city.

    And in other non-story news, the Titanic has stabilized, is no longer sinking or taking on additional water, and passenger complaints are down — way way down.

    Stringing a few factually accurate statements together to paint a picture that is far from the truth is still a deception, tantamount to a lie, and is just about all we ever get from our government and corporate media.

  • Anonymous

    The Titanic has stabilize and is no longer taking on water, and
    Brownie is doing a hellava job.

  • Anonymous

    The Titanic has stabilize and is no longer taking on water, and
    Brownie is doing a hellava job.

  • Anonymous

    There is STILL a disconnect “Brownie.” Heckuva job trying to continue to sell the myth. I ain’t buyin’.

  • Smatchmo

    “Brown said “there was a mentality in Washington which says you put the best face on everything.” He said information given out by the administration was accurate, but “we never put it in context” with how much still needed to be done to lift the stricken city.”

    It’s cold comfort to see former Bush officials finally admitting the truth. Maybe one day what happened here in Mississippi will come to light, but I doubt it; everyone knows Hurricane Katrina slammed right into New Orleans, the eye passing right over the 9th ward, and then the hurricane suddenly dissipated when it reached New Orleans city limits.

    We knew things were FUBAR in Louisiana & Mississippi but with the administration putting out their “it ain’t THAT bad” propaganda and with the media repeating the propaganda followed by promptly forgetting the area (except once a year on the anniversary, of course), we were constantly ridiculed as whining helpless infants (probably on welfare anyway, amirite?) who were just too lazy for our own good and were far too dependent on mommy government to spoon-feed us help. STILL pisses me off.

  • Anonymous

    Like we didn’t know they were orchestrating a massive cover-up and PR effort as we watched fellow-citizens suffer and die in the drowning city. Will Faux Noise cover this? Don’t hold your breath.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, our pResident bravely flew to one of Oldy McMoldy’s many mansions to clown around while a great American city drowned before our eyes.

  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile the Reich Wingers (like those over at Politico) are foaming at the mouth over the prospect of the GOP regaining control of Congress and starting a wave of “investigations” of Obama, while cleverly ignoring all the atrocities committed by their dear leader, King George The Lesser that were never even looked at let alone investigated. Two faced, hypocritical assholes.

  • Lauren

    WOW….really? Maybe the rest of the story can be found locked up with Cheney’s Energy meetings.

    Is there ANYTHING the Bush Assministration can come right out and admit to?

  • Anonymous

    Mike Brown has a law degree. Before he became the head of FEMA, he worked for a horse trading magazine here in Oklahoma. In no way was he ever qualified to run an agency that is charged with the preservation of human life. He raised a lot of money for W’s campaign so W gave him the job.

    Both Brown and W share the blame for all the death they caused. I hope both those bastards rot in hell for their negligence AND for lying. W Bush should do the right thing for the 1st time in his life – commit suicide.

  • Sam

    The same thing has been going on with the oil in the gulf. Instead of talking of compensatory payments, thousands should have been actively relocated for their own health, never mind income.
    Sad to say, but we have become a PR-lead nation.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    Brownie only recently came to grips with this part of his life – that he is, and was, an inexperienced douchebag narcissist (“how’s my shirt look? can you see my nipples?”); okay, maybe he didn’t make that last statement, but i’ve never heard him say publicly that he didn’t. He’s quick to blame someone else, anyone else, but he learned from the masters – the RepigliKKKan leadership (now THERE’S a misnomer). Katrina? yeah, that was Clinton’s fault too.

    Some people say his nickname is “Brownie” because he has a thing for little girls in uniform. He can always go on Faux News to refudiate the rumor.

  • http://beyondpoliticsand911.com DoYouEverWonder

    He’s too stupid to be embarrassed by his own incompetence.

  • AD

    You also had republican governors helping to dish out the happy horseshit coming out of Washington and it took Anderson Cooper to tell that idiot Mary Landreau that she was buying into the bush agenda. Barber’s first (and last, it seems) order of business was to get the casinos back up and running. If his constituents didn’t have a safe place to live because their insurance company wouldn’t pay up, well that was too bad but couldn’t be helped. I’m so sick of these people who were in power at the time having their come to Jesus moments and expecting us to exonerate them because now they’re sorry. It never seemed to occur to them that they were in office to protect the welfare of the people who put them there.

  • None

    It’s no different than today and the truth about our economy. Same with BP. Same with Mexico/AZ/Border. Same with Vaccines and GM foods.

    The idea that government is honest never was. It’s a pipe dream the media/hollywood wants you to believe.

  • Anonymous

    Good point Sam. Quote from “Jim in Boston”: “Do yourself a favor and change the reality, not the perception of reality.”

  • realnewz

    Fox No News was busy being racist showing the same clips of poor black american citizens looting and reporting on non existent gun violence and non existant babies being raped in the bio dome. They even had Jesse Jackson on telling an understandably miserable looking black woman with child to tell the others in the bio dome not to resort to violence. How insulting. Jackson should be smacked for that!

  • Anonymous

    They will try to impeach Obama. I don’t know why and they don’t know why but I’m sure they will trump up something. Things like blow jobs are impeachable offenses, lying the US isn’t. It will be easy for the GOP to find false pretext to do it.

  • realnewz

    I forgot to mention that I knew odd was going on in NOLA when then mayor Ray Nagin was screaming mad at the govornor about the poor response and said he was too afraid to say anything more. A mayor of a city said he is scared for his life if he spoke out!
    What does he know?

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