The Raw Story is reporting that a group known as the Center for Public Integrity has obtained more than 900 pages of emails from Michael Brown's (yes, Bush's beloved Brownie) account, from the days leading up to the Katrina disaster. The emails have yet to be made public.
Based on the new emails, the Center will allege that "While many coastal residents were awaiting rescue from rooftops or wading through toxic flood waters, it was business as usual in the world of money, power and government inside the Washington beltway."
Center for Public Integrity will assert, "The emails begin Aug. 26, the Friday before the storm hit, and end Sept. 8, ten days after the storm. Although some messages were previously released by Congressional committees investigating the storm response, this group of messages is a more complete look at the actions of Brown and his inner circle while they were in the eye of what turned out to be their own media storm."
The emails once again cast unfavorable light on Michael Brown, then head of FEMA.
"I'm at HQ but down in the studio most of the rest of the a.m.... Here we go!" Brown wrote the Saturday before the storm arrived as he prepared for a round of TV and radio interviews. At 6:21 a.m the Monday Katrina hit, Brown was preparing for another major round of interviews.
"Sitting in the chair, putting mousse in my hair...." he wrote to Patrick Rhode, FEMA's chief of staff.
And, on the day Katrina slammed into New Orleans, a former U.S. senator who had become a registered lobbyist, was trying to get Brown to schedule a meeting to complain about a no-bid contract that was heading to his client's competitor.
DEVELOPING.... EMAILS EXPECTED TO BE RELEASED WITHIN THE HOUR....
This just makes me sick to my stomach.
More to come, folks.
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