The WaPo reports that, according to a FEMA staffer who was on the ground in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit, Michael "heckuva job, Brownie" Brown was informed personally, and repeatedly, about the disaster that was unfolding in the wake of the hurricane. The staffer, Marty Bahamonde, directly contradicted Brown’s sworn testimony before Congress, and had the emails to back it up. Says the WaPo: "For 16 critical hours, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, including former director Michael D. Brown, dismissed urgent eyewitness accounts by FEMA’s only staffer in New Orleans that Hurricane Katrina had broken the city’s levee system the morning of Aug. 29 and was causing catastrophic flooding, the staffer told the Senate today."
Heckuva job, Brownie.
