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| KATRINA - White House Called 30 Times February 11, 2006 Ex-FEMA chief: White House contacted, Homeland at fault By Ana Radelat, Gannett News Service WASHINGTON — Michael Brown, former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said the federal response to Hurricane Katrina would have been much different if New Orleans' levees had been hit by a terrorist bomb instead of a hurricane. Michael Brown, in Friday's hearing, told senators that Homeland Security decisions and policies doomed FEMA to "a path to failure." By Win McNamee, Getty Images "If we'd confirmed that a terrorist had blown up the 17th St. Canal levee, then everybody would have jumped all over that and been trying to do everything they could," said Brown, who has been criticized for the agency's lax response to Katrina. "But because this was a natural disaster, that has become the stepchild within the Department of Homeland Security." He told members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday that his agency was unable to function effectively after it became part of the Department of Homeland Security. "We reached a fatal flaw in 2003 when FEMA was folded into DHS," Brown said. "FEMA should not be in DHS." In defending his conduct after the storm hit the Gulf Coast, Brown said calling his bosses at homeland security on Aug. 29 after Katrina made landfall "would have been a waste of my time" because of the department's ineffectiveness. Instead, Brown said, he called White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, who was in Crawford, Texas, with President Bush. Brown said he contacted the White House about 30 times in the days before Katrina hit, speaking directly with Bush a few times. And he said the president participated in a videoconference that Brown conducted the day before the storm hit. Brown also said he told his staff and everyone participating in the video conference that he "expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could — that it was balls to the wall ... because I knew in my gut ... this was the bad one." Bush has said no one in the administration could have predicted Katrina's destructiveness. "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees," Bush said. Brown said he informed top homeland security officials about the breaching of New Orleans' levees the day Katrina hit land, contradicting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and other department officials who said they did not know about the levee failure until the next day. Brown called homeland security officials' assertions about the levees "baloney" and "a little disingenuous." But Russ Knocke, spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the agency could not have responded any more quickly because it was getting conflicting reports from the storm-hit region. "You can't make decisions based on rumors or innuendo," Knocke said. Brown also complained that by ordering him to "plop my rear end down in Baton Rouge," Chertoff hurt Brown's ability to investigate the impact of the storm. "You can't run a disaster unless — as I did it in all of other disasters, going into the field, going out and seeing what's going on, getting into New Orleans, getting into Jackson," Brown said. "How can I know what's going on in Mississippi if I can't go there and sit down with Haley Barbour and find out what's going on? Brown was forced to resign two weeks after the disaster, which killed about 1,200 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Several lawmakers sympathized with Brown on Friday, saying the Bush administration made him a "scapegoat" for the poor federal response to Katrina. "Congress should not allow this administration to make Mike Brown the fall guy for the incompetence that goes all the way to the White House," said Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee. But others chided Brown for not taking responsibility for FEMA's failures. "Perhaps you may get a more sympathetic hearing if you had a willingness to kind of confess your own sins in this," said Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., complained that while administration officials "pointed fingers at each other ... FEMA remains anemic and the rebuilding they are managing remains inefficient, ineffective and slow." Brown has been subpoenaed by the House Select Committee on Hurricane Katrina to answer questions from panel members in private this weekend. "We want to get the information we need from Brown without causing a further media circus," said Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., chairman of the panel. Davis also said Brown's new testimony would not change plans for his committee to issue its reports on its investigation of the federal government's response to Katrina on Feb. 15. But Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., a member of the committee, said Brown's testimony on Friday showed he had not been candid when he appeared before the House panel last year. "We can't change the past, but he has first-hand knowledge vital to our improvement of the disaster response process and it would be a failure on his part to not provide us with that information that could save lives in future disasters," Pickering said. |
| PRESIDENT BUSH - THE LEAK STARTS HERE Legality vs Ethics April 8, 2006 WASHINGTON - MSNBC The White House on Friday declined to challenge assertions that President Bush authorized the leaks of intelligence information to counter administration critics on Iraq. But Bush’s spokesman, Scott McClellan, appeared to draw a distinction about Bush’s oft-stated opposition to leaks. “There is a difference between providing declassified information to the public when it’s in the public interest and leaking classified information that involved sensitive national intelligence regarding our security,” he said. Court papers filed by the prosecutor in the CIA leak case against I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby said Bush authorized Libby to disclose information from a classified prewar intelligence report. The court papers say Libby’s boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, advised him that the president had authorized Libby to leak the information to the press in striking back at administration critic Joseph Wilson. McClellan volunteered that the administration declassified information from the intelligence report — the National Intelligence Estimate — and released it to the public on July 18, 2003. But he refused to say when the information was actually declassified. 'Officially declassified' On July 18, 2003, McClellan said that the information had been declassified that day. “It was officially declassified today,” he told reporters in a briefing in Dallas. At the White House on Friday, McClellan interpreted his own remarks to mean that the information had been officially released to the public. The date could be significant because Libby discussed the information with a reporter 10 days earlier, on July 8 of that year. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., citing Bush’s call two years ago to find the person who leaked the CIA identity of Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, said the latest disclosures means the president needs to go no further than a mirror. In his court filing, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald asserted that “the president was unaware of the role” that Libby “had in fact played in disclosing” Plame’s CIA status. The prosecutor gave no such assurance, though, regarding Cheney. NBC VIDEO Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said that “in light of today’s shocking revelation, President Bush must fully disclose his participation in the selective leaking of classified information. The American people must know the truth.” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the president has the “inherent authority to decide who should have classified information.” The White House declined to comment, citing the ongoing criminal probe into the leak of Plame’s identity. In July 2003, Wilson’s accusation that the Bush administration had twisted prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat “was viewed in the office of vice president as a direct attack on the credibility of the vice president, and the president,” Fitzgerald’s court papers stated. Part of the counterattack was a July 8, 2003, meeting with New York Times reporter Judith Miller at which Libby discussed the contents of a then-classified CIA report that seemed to undercut what Wilson was saying in public. Separately, Libby said he understood he also was to tell Miller that prewar intelligence assessments had been that Iraq was “vigorously trying to procure” uranium, the prosecutor stated. In the run-up to the war, Cheney had insisted Iraq was trying to build a nuclear bomb. The conclusion on uranium was contained in a National Intelligence Estimate, a consensus document of the U.S. intelligence community. Libby’s statements came in grand jury testimony before he was charged with five counts of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI in the Plame probe. Libby claims authorization from Cheney Libby at first told the vice president that he could not have the July 8, 2003, conversation with Miller because of the classified nature of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, Fitzgerald said. Libby testified to the grand jury “that the vice president later advised him that the president had authorized defendant to disclose the relevant portions” of the NIE. Libby testified that he also spoke to David Addington, then counsel to the vice president, “whom defendant considered to be an expert in national security law, and Mr. Addington opined that presidential authorization to publicly disclose a document amounted to a declassification of the document.” Libby testified that he was specifically authorized to disclose the key judgments of the classified intelligence document because it was thought that its conclusions were “fairly definitive” against what Wilson had said and the vice president thought that it was “very important” for those key judgments to come out, the court papers stated. 'A junket set up by Mr. Wilson's wife' After Wilson began attacking the administration, Cheney had a conversation with Libby, expressing concerns on whether a CIA-sponsored trip to the African nation of Niger by Wilson “was legitimate or whether it was in effect a junket set up by Mr. Wilson’s wife,” Fitzgerald wrote. The suggestion that Plame sent her husband on the Africa trip has gotten widespread circulation among White House loyalists. Wilson said he had concluded on his trip that it was highly doubtful Niger had sold uranium yellowcake to Iraq. The prosecutor’s court papers offer a glimpse inside the White House when the Justice Department launched a criminal investigation of the Plame leak in September 2003. Libby “implored White House officials” to issue a statement saying he had not been involved in revealing Plame’s identity, and that when his initial efforts met with no success, he “sought the assistance of the vice president in having his name cleared,” the prosecutor stated. The White House eventually said neither Libby nor Karl Rove had been involved in the leak. Rove remains under criminal investigation. NBC's Joel Seidman and The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
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