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"Harry Hope" |
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09 Sep 2005 07:09:19 AM |
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TIME Magazine: Bush FEMA boss's bio is a pack of lies |
From TIME Magazine, 9/8/05:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1103003,00.html
How Reliable Is Brown's Resume?
A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in the FEMA chief's
official biographies
By DAREN FONDA AND RITA HEALY
When President Bush nominated Michael Brown to head the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003, Brown's boss at the time,
Joe Allbaugh, declared, "the President couldn't have chosen a better
man to help...prepare and protect the nation."
But how well was he prepared for the job?
Since Hurricane Katrina, the FEMA director has come under heavy
criticism for his performance and scrutiny of his background.
Now, an investigation by TIME has found discrepancies in his online
legal profile and official bio, including a description of Brown
released by the White House at the time of his nomination in 2001 to
the job as deputy chief of FEMA.
(Brown became Director of FEMA, succeeding Allbaugh, in 2003.)
Before joining FEMA, his only previous stint in emergency management,
according to his bio posted on FEMA's website, was "serving as an
assistant city manager with emergency services oversight."
The White House press release from 2001 stated that Brown worked for
the city of Edmond, Okla., from 1975 to 1978 "overseeing the emergency
services division."
In fact, according to Claudia Deakins, head of public relations for
the city of Edmond, Brown was an "assistant to the city manager" from
1977 to 1980, not a manager himself, and had no authority over other
employees.
"The assistant is more like an intern," she told TIME.
"Department heads did not report to him." Brown did do a good job at
his humble position, however, according to his boss.
"Yes. Mike Brown worked for me. He was my administrative assistant. He
was a student at Central State University," recalls former city
manager Bill Dashner.
"Mike used to handle a lot of details. Every now and again I'd ask him
to write me a speech. He was very loyal. He was always on time. He
always had on a suit and a starched white shirt."
In response, Nicol Andrews, deputy strategic director in FEMA's office
of public affairs, insists that while Brown began as an intern, he
became an "assistant city manager" with a distinguished record of
service.
"According to Mike Brown," she says, "a large portion [of the points
raised by TIME] is very inaccurate."
Brown's lack of experience in emergency management isn't the only
apparent bit of padding on his resume, which raises questions about
how rigorously the White House vetted him before putting him in charge
of FEMA.
Under the "honors and awards" section of his profile at FindLaw.com --
which is information on the legal website provided by lawyers or their
offices--he lists "Outstanding Political Science Professor, Central
State University".
However, Brown "wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here,"
says Charles Johnson, News Bureau Director in the University Relations
office at the University of Central Oklahoma (formerly named Central
State University).
"He may have been an adjunct instructor," says Johnson, but that title
is very different from that of "professor."
Carl Reherman, a former political science professor at the University
through the '70s and '80s, says that Brown "was not on the faculty."
As for the honor of "Outstanding Political Science Professor," Johnson
says, "I spoke with the department chair yesterday and he's not aware
of it."
Johnson could not confirm that Brown made the Dean's list or was an
"Outstanding Political Science Senior," as is stated on his online
profile.
Speaking for Brown, Andrews says that Brown has never claimed to be a
political science professor, in spite of what his profile in FindLaw
indicates.
"He was named the outstanding political science senior at Central
State, and was an adjunct professor at Oklahoma City School of Law."
Under the heading of "Professional Associations and Memberships" on
FindLaw, Brown states that from 1983 to the present he has been
director of the Oklahoma Christian Home, a nursing home in Edmond.
But an administrator with the Home, told TIME that Brown is "not a
person that anyone here is familiar with."
She says there was a board of directors until a couple of years ago,
but she couldn't find anyone who recalled him being on it.
According to FEMA's Andrews, Brown said "he's never claimed to be the
director of the home. He was on the board of directors, or governors
of the nursing home."
However, a veteran employee at the center since 1981 says Brown "was
never director here, was never on the board of directors, was never
executive director. He was never here in any capacity. I never heard
his name mentioned here."
The FindLaw profile for Brown was amended on Thursday to remove a
reference to his tenure at the International Arabian Horse
Association, which has become a contested point.
Brown's FindLaw profile lists a wide range of areas of legal practice,
from estate planning to family law to sports.
However, one former colleague does not remember Brown's work as
sterling.
Stephen Jones, a prominent Oklahoma lawyer who was lead defense
attorney on the Timothy McVeigh case, was Brown's boss for
two-and-a-half years in the early '80s.
"He did mainly transactional work, not litigation," says Jones.
"There was a feeling that he was not serious and somewhat shallow."
Jones says when his law firm split, Brown was one of two staffers who
was let go.
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Hmmmmmmmmm. Strange. Does the Bush clown administration check anybody?
Harry
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| User: "Joshua Heard" |
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| Title: Re: TIME Magazine: Bush FEMA boss's bio is a pack of lies |
09 Sep 2005 09:32:58 AM |
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This has to be the lamest hit job I have ever seen. They quote extensively
from Findlaw, a legal search engine, and attribute it's inaccuracies to
Brown. Then, they go to his past employers, and find, surprise, someone who
has never heard of him. Stupid.
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| User: "NoMo" |
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| Title: Re: TIME Magazine: Bush FEMA boss's bio is a pack of lies |
09 Sep 2005 01:44:49 PM |
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"Joshua Heard" <jheard@nospammsn.com> wrote in message
news:u2hUe.51363$Nx.3562@tornado.texas.rr.com...
This has to be the lamest hit job I have ever seen. They quote
extensively from Findlaw, a legal search engine, and attribute it's
inaccuracies to Brown. Then, they go to his past employers, and find,
surprise, someone who has never heard of him. Stupid.
Regardless of whether it's a "hit job" or not (and I'm inclined to think
it's not. Padding a resume is hardly unheard of), at least his incompetence
has caught someone's attention:
Director Brown Pulled Off Katrina Relief.
"The director of Federal Emergency Management Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff was bringing Brown back to Washington and putting Vice
Admiral Thad Allen, chief of staff of the U.S. Coast Guard, in charge of
operations on the ground."
Chertoff made the decision.
http://olympics.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-09-09T174335Z_01_FOR927615_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-BROWN-DC.XML
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| User: "Jeff Welch" |
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| Title: Re: TIME Magazine: Bush FEMA boss's bio is a pack of lies |
09 Sep 2005 10:00:22 AM |
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"Joshua Heard" <jheard@nospammsn.com> wrote in message
news:u2hUe.51363$Nx.3562@tornado.texas.rr.com...
This has to be the lamest hit job I have ever seen. They quote
extensively from Findlaw, a legal search engine, and attribute it's
inaccuracies to Brown. Then, they go to his past employers, and find,
surprise, someone who has never heard of him. Stupid.
Are you claiming that Brown IS qualified to head FEMA?
-Jeff
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| User: "Lars Eighner" |
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| Title: Re: TIME Magazine: Bush FEMA boss's bio is a pack of lies |
09 Sep 2005 12:09:34 PM |
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In our last episode,
<u2hUe.51363$Nx.3562@tornado.texas.rr.com>,
the lovely and talented Joshua Heard
broadcast on alt.politics:
This has to be the lamest hit job I have ever seen. They quote extensively
from Findlaw, a legal search engine, and attribute it's inaccuracies to
Brown. Then, they go to his past employers, and find, surprise, someone who
has never heard of him. Stupid.
So you are claiming he is being swiftboated?
--
Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/
I don't see posts from or threads started from googlegroups.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the
merger of state and corporate power."-Benito Mussolini * When you write the
check to pay your taxes, remember there are two l's in "Halliburton."
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| User: "Rich Travsky " |
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| Title: Re: TIME Magazine: Bush FEMA boss's bio is a pack of lies |
10 Sep 2005 01:38:25 AM |
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Joshua Heard wrote:
This has to be the lamest hit job I have ever seen. They quote extensively
from Findlaw, a legal search engine, and attribute it's inaccuracies to
Brown. Then, they go to his past employers, and find, surprise, someone who
has never heard of him. Stupid.
Did you bother to read the article??? They interviewed people and institutions
involved...
RT
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| User: "Robert R." |
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| Title: Re: TIME Magazine: Bush FEMA boss's bio is a pack of lies |
09 Sep 2005 10:48:18 AM |
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Joshua Heard wrote:
This has to be the lamest hit job I have ever seen. They quote extensively
from Findlaw, a legal search engine, and attribute it's inaccuracies to
Brown.
That's because lawyers submit and maintain their own FindLaw lawyer
profiles, you dumbshit.
Then, they go to his past employers, and find, surprise, someone who
has never heard of him.
<gasp> A Bushite caught in a lie! Perish the thought! Does not
compute! Liberal media conspiracy! Ditto! Ditto!
Stupid.
Yep, you sure are.
Robert R.
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| User: "Joshua Heard" |
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| Title: Re: TIME Magazine: Bush FEMA boss's bio is a pack of lies |
10 Sep 2005 12:54:19 PM |
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That's because lawyers submit and maintain their own FindLaw lawyer
profiles, you dumbshit.
Uh. No.
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| User: "Robert R." |
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10 Sep 2005 05:08:50 PM |
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Joshua Heard wrote:
That's because lawyers submit and maintain their own FindLaw lawyer
profiles, you dumbshit.
Uh. No.
Uh. Yes.
http://pu.findlaw.com/
http://www.lawyermarketing.com/products/page189720.html
Robert R.
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| User: "Joshua Heard" |
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| Title: Re: TIME Magazine: Bush FEMA boss's bio is a pack of lies |
11 Sep 2005 10:16:00 PM |
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"Robert R." <robertr1234@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126390130.168001.243810@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Joshua Heard wrote:
That's because lawyers submit and maintain their own FindLaw lawyer
profiles, you dumbshit.
Uh. No.
Uh. Yes.
http://pu.findlaw.com/
That's an *update*. I am a lawyer with an entry on Findlaw, and I never
gave them info.
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| User: "KARL ROVE: TRAITOR & LIAR Jake WK" |
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09 Sep 2005 11:52:52 AM |
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:32:58 GMT, "Joshua Heard" <jheard@nospammsn.com> wrote:
This has to be the lamest hit job I have ever seen. They quote extensively
from Findlaw, a legal search engine, and attribute it's inaccuracies to
Brown. Then, they go to his past employers, and find, surprise, someone who
has never heard of him. Stupid.
Stupid, huh? How ironic.
Please state Brown's qualifications and credentials to be the head of FEMA.
Jake
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