The Brown Memo

Off the AP Wire: "The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region — and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents. Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims. Before then, FEMA had positioned smaller rescue and communications teams across the Gulf Coast. But officials acknowledged Tuesday the first department-wide appeal for help came only as the storm raged."

The real story about the Brown memo below is, How did it get public? The knives, or rather, not the knives, but the long knife seems to be out for Michael Brown now.
But really, who put this joker in the job? And his number two? A Bush campaign advance man. His number three? A Bush campaign "media strategist".
Who appointed these guys?

from Talking Points