Subj : Re: Brownie
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John Iwaniszek
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 01:42:28

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble wrote:

> John Iwaniszek wrote:
> 
>> Guess what unqualified political hack and failure as a director of a 
>> federal emergency management agency is back working with the feds as a
>> consultant studying how the feds fucked up?  Does Bush TRY to fuck up? 
> 
> While politically embarassing, he was involved at a very high level, and 
> its probably worthwhile for the people investigating to have access to 
> him.
> 
> We just had a new contractor take over some important functions a few 
> months ago, and though both teams were maintained in parallel for a few 
> weeks for a handover period, there was a lot of little stuff we had to 
> keep calling them about for the first month after they left.
> 
> 
> If he is supposed to be part of the investigating team as the article 
> seems to imply, Brown has zero independence and it would/could/should be 
> seen as a conflict of interest.
> 
>> "6:44 pm(CBS) CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that
>> Michael Brown, who recently resigned as the head of the FEMA, has been
>> rehired by the agency as a consultant to evaluate it's response
>> following Hurricane Katrina." (http://tinyurl.com/afzwb) 
> 

It appears that he's just saying a long goodbye, and the consultant 
relationship is an exaggeration.  But if you are implying that any kind of 
real soul-searching is underway, then I can't do nothing for ya, man.

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