MICHAEL BROWN COMMITS PERJURY?

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CNN, other news outlets ignored Brown's false c ... :

"Under questioning from Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) during the September 27 House hearing, Brown claimed that President Bush's August 27 declaration of emergency for Louisiana did not include Orleans, Jefferson, and Plaquemines parishes because Blanco had excluded them from her request earlier that day:

BUYER: So I'd like to know why did the president's federal emergency assistance declaration of August 27th not include the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, and Plaquemines?

BROWN: Under the law, the governor makes the request for the declaration, and the governors of the states specify what areas, what counties they want included in that declaration. And, based upon the governor's request, that's the recommendation that we make to the president. So if a governor does not request a particular county or a particular parish, that's not included in the request.

BUYER: All right. Orleans Parish is New Orleans. I was listening to my colleague, Mr. [Rep. William J.] Jefferson's [D-LA], questions about when they talked about, you know, they asked for this assistance for three days and the president responded the very next day, not the day that it was made -- the request -- but the governor of Louisiana actually excluded New Orleans from the president's federal emergency assistance declaration?

BROWN: Again, congressman, we looked at the request. The governors make the request by --

BUYER: Let me ask this: Since you went through the exercise in [Hurricane] Pam [a FEMA training exercise], was that not shocking to you that the governor would exclude New Orleans from the declaration?

BROWN: Yes.

BUYER: When that request came in excluding these three parishes, did you question it?

BROWN: We questioned it. But I made the decision that we were going to go ahead and move assets in regardless, because we have the ability to add those parishes.

In fact, Blanco requested a federal declaration of emergency 'in all southeastern parishes,' which clearly included the three parishes in question,..."


Ed. Note -

Here is the original State of Emergency Declaration for the ENTIRE STATE of Louisiana dated 8/26 -
http://www.gov.state.la.us/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=976

And here Governor Blanco asks President to Declare an Emergency for the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina, INCLUDING THE PARISH'S BROWN FALSLY CLAIMS WERE ommitted -
http://www.gov.state.la.us/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=976