FEMA Chief Waited Until After Storm Hit – Yahoo! News
The government’s disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000
Homeland Security employees to the region — and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents.Michael Brown, director of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to “convey a positive image” about the government’s response for victims.
So they dispatched a PR offensive in the aftermath of the most destructive hurricane of modern American history? If this doesn’t piss you off, then you’re anti-American. Your countrymen died because of massive incompetence. Yup, your doing a fine job Brownie…
