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FEMA chief's calls for help went unheeded  view story
Monday, February 27, 2006
Bill Walsh - - New Orleans Times-Picayune
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More than anyone else, former FEMA Director Michael Brown became the cartoonish face of bureaucratic incompetence after Hurricane Katrina.
The image seemed only fitting when congressional investigators released Brown's e-mail messages at the height of the disaster reflecting on his wardrobe during television appearances.
But a somewhat more sympathetic picture of Brown is emerging. As scrutiny has intensified on his former boss, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Brown is being seen more as an unqualified but well-intentioned bureaucrat warning in vain in advance of the storm that his agency was unprepared.
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