Brown made ‘chief scapegoat’ for government’s hurricane failures

HE has been called an idiot, an incompetent and worse. The vilification of federal disaster chief Michael Brown, emerging as chief scapegoat for whatever went wrong in the US Government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, has ratcheted into the stratosphere.

Brown made ‘chief scapegoat’ for government’s hurricane failures

Democratic members of US Congress were calling for his head.

“I would never have appointed such a person,” said New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

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