Subj : Re: Brownie fired
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John I
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 20:11:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble wrote:

> John I wrote:
> 
>> Jim Larson wrote:
>>> Nick wrote:
>  
>>>> And here I thought he was doing a helluva job.
> 
>>> heckuva. We don't blaspheme around here.
> 
>>> (Isn't he just being removed from where he can do the most harm (i.e.
>>> the site of the actual emergency)? I didn't realize he was being
>>> fired.) 
>  
>> Not fired.
>  
>> From MSNBC:
>  
>> "Two federal officials who wouldn't be identified told the AP that
>> Brown is being sent back to Washington from Baton Rouge, La. He was
>> the primary official overseeing the federal government's response to
>> the disaster." 
> 
> Does this help? BBC quoting Brown
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4231170.stm
> 

From the LA Times:

"The Department of Homeland Security, into which FEMA was absorbed when the 
nation's homeland defense operations were overhauled after the Sept. 11 
attacks, presented the shift as a reflection of the ongoing needs of 
preparing for additional hurricane damage.

The department said Brown was returning to Washington to manage FEMA's 
national operations because it is still hurricane season "and he has done all 
he can do down there."

<shudder>

What's weird is that the BBC gets the names, but the US media seems to be 
under a blanket "off the record" policy.

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