Brown move fails to convince

For the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and for the White House, Michael Brown has become a real problem.

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According to the Washington Post, five of the top eight officials at Fema came to their posts with hardly any experience of handling disasters.

The top three, including Mr Brown, had ties to President Bush's election campaign in the year 2000.

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'Heck of a job'

Mr Bush chose last week to single out Mr Brown for public praise.

"Browny, you're doing a heck of a job," he said.

But on Friday Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, announced that Mr Brown was moving to other duties.

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He has not been sacked but the idea that this was a planned move - part of a wider strategy to deal with the next disaster - will not appear to most Americans to be very credible.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4231648.stm

as said here elsewhere we need Brit media to get it straight.