From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:56:44 -0400, Richard B.  wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:38:41 -0700, "Robert Comer"
> wrote:
>
>>Did you know FEMA rehired Browne as a consultant to help them figure out
>>what went wrong..  (yeah, you're going to get an objective analysis from
>>him...)
>
>I'd think you'd want the person involved to be able to help.  Yes, had
>he been allowed to do his job without bickering between the governor
>and mayor and their precious feelings help would have been available
>more quickly.


Since he perjured himself yesterday, you can't believe a word of his
testimony.  He stated under oath that Blanco excluded Orleans Parish from
her 8/27 emergency request to President Bush.  After this snippet of
transcript, there's a link to the actual emergency request, which clearly
includes Orleans parish and every other parish affected by the storm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/national/nationalspecial/27text-brown.html?pa
gewanted=all
BUYER: I would like to ask some questions about the pre- landfall. So I'd
like to know why did the president's federal emergency assistance
declaration of August 27th not include the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson
and Plaquemines?

BROWN: Under the law, the governor makes the request for the declaration
and the governors of the states specify what areas, what counties they want
included in that declaration.

And, based upon the governor's request, that's the recommendation that we
make to the president. So if a governor does not request a particular
county or a particular parish, that's not included in the request.

BUYER: All right.

Orleans Parish is New Orleans. I was listening to my colleague, Mr.
Jefferson's, questions about when they talked about, you know, they asked
for this assistance for three days and then president responded the very
next day, not the day that it was made -- the request -- but the governor
of Louisiana actually excluded New Orleans from the president's federal
emergency assistance declaration?

BROWN: Again, Congressman, we looked at the request. The governors make the
request by...

BUYER: Let me ask this. Since you went through the exercise in Pam, was
that not shocking to you that the governor would excluded New Orleans from
the declaration?

BROWN: Yes.



That was simply untrue
(http://www.gov.state.la.us/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=976).

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