| FEMA's
Brown Blasted While Dubya Still
Refuses Foreign Aid
By Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen Report.com
9-6-5
"Team Bush" is still refusing international
aid.
* Russian rescue crews on four cargo planes with helicopters
on board sit idle at an airport near Moscow waiting for green
light,
* Cuba has 1500 doctors with 26 tons of medical supplies and
Bush is refusing them entry to U.S.,
* Venezuelan disaster rescue teams wait for a "go,"
* Dominican Republic crews with hurricane recovery experience
wait and wait and wait.
It's the same scene at airports around the world.
Meanwhile, FEMA turned back 8 buses from Washington, DC that
were to bring 400 evacuees to the DC Armory which has been stockpiled
with just about every need. The Bush regime has finally reached
the crescendo of evil.
And why is FEMA so incompetent? It was turned into a political
patronage agency by Bush for Bush's campaign lickspittles. This
from a disaster recovery specialist with inside contacts at
FEMA:
Mike Brown was Joe Allbaugh's college roommate. (Allbaugh
was Bush's first FEMA director). Allbaugh is now a
consultant who makes tons of money for greasing the skids for
companies to get business with the federal government in Iraq
and with FEMA.
Note to Federal law enforcement: You might want to investigate
the relationship between Allbaugh and IEM, Dewberry, and URS
-- the companies that took $500,000 to develop a "Catastrophic
Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana,"
a plan they never delivered and a project for they fraudulently
included James Lee Witt Associates as one of their team partners.
The sleazy revolving door spewing out money spins very fast
with the Bush administration.
Mike Brown had absolutely no experience in disaster management.
When Allbaugh became director in January, 2001, he politically
cleansed FEMA of anyone who was associated with outgoing director
James Lee Witt, who had done an excellent during the Clinton
administration. Allbaugh was charged with cleaning out of FEMA
because of the neocon desire to rid the Federal bureaucracy
of FEMA and replace it with charitable giving as a means of
disaster relief.
So, Allbaugh's first priority was to gut FEMA. This became an
even greater priority after the Democrats (especially
Joe Lieberman) forced Bush to create a Department of
Homeland Security. FEMA was rolled into DHS. Allbaugh was caught
by the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
using the FEMA Boeing 737 aircraft for private purposes, including
numerous personal trips to Florida and political trips around
the country. The Republican National Committee reimbursed FEMA
for the political junkets, but the embarrassing trips hit the
pages of the New York Times and Allbaugh chose at that time
to leave and set up his own consulting business. He left without
any pressure from the White House.
In early 2001, The American Arabian Horse Association fired
current FEMA director Mike Brown as its executive secretary
after a non-productive period of employment. Admittedly, Mike
Brown had spent a large part of 2000 campaigning for Bush rather
than doing his job, but the bottom line for the horse association
was that Brown neglected his duties and day to day responsibilities.
Brown was lucky. His old college roommate, Allbaugh, appointed
Brown as his number 2 within days of his firing by the horse
association. This cozy relationship was noted throughout the
Allbaugh period. Upon Allbaugh's departure, Brown was designated
by Bush to succeed him as FEMA director. He is called
"Brownie" by Bush.
"Brownie" has few supporters in FEMA.
In fact, the general commentary is that he lacks basic organizational
and management skills and he is a bullshit artist, not a leader.
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