As wagons are circled in DC and Baton Rouge, Brown offers his version of Katrina debacle

Ex-FEMA Chief Tells of Frustration and Chaos - New York Times:

"Mr. Brown, then director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said he told the officials in Washington that the Louisiana governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, and her staff were proving incapable of organizing a coherent state effort and that his field officers in the city were reporting an 'out of control' situation."

Very little that is new in this account; but, organized as Brown recalls it, the effect is a bit different. Makes you wish there were going to be public hearings on the Katrina response.