Heckuva Hindsight

"It wasn't my fault!" sez Brownie.

Former FEMA Chief Blames DHS

Brown testified that if the hurricane had been a terrorist attack rather than a calamitous natural disaster, the federal response would have been very different. He said natural disasters "had become the stepchild of the Department of Homeland Security."

Brown testified that FEMA's mission of responding to natural disasters had been marginalized after it became part of the newly created Department of Homeland Security.