Michael Brown said he didn't know about "the convention center". He's the only person in America who didn't know.
Read my post - #216.
FEMA did not set up the convention center as a mass care center. Did not happen. New Orleans or ARC did - and then abandonded it. How the hell is FEMA supposed to know everything? Yes - reporters went there and shot footage, but guess what people that work for FEMA were: DOING WORK and not watching tv. Or - should FEMA employ people to just watch tv. ANd they would have to employ A LOT of people because of all the coverage. Gee - wouldn't it be better to have FEMA employees actually working on getting aid to the people they do know about?
The failure at the convention center was a local one. Once it was brought to FEMA's attention, the clock was ticking on how long it took the feds to get aid there and the place evacuated. If they knew about it and did nothing, then they can be blamed, but it is very legitimate that they may not have known about it until Thursday. Then they had to figure out a way to get massive quantities of aid there. If they knew about it for several days and did nothing, blast them for it - but if they found out about it on Thursday and arrived to the rescue on Friday, not too bad in my book. Yeah, Thursday night would have been nice, maybe early Friday morning, but better to do it with the right number of troops and supplies.
GEEZ - some on here are forgetting that the feds don't know everything about everything (and they know nothing about a lot of things). If you think that someone at FEMA knows where you will go to if you are evacuated from your home - you need to check into Disneyland full-time. FEMA does not know - and for them to know would take a lot more employees than what they have - and what you would be happy to pay in taxes to support.