[EternalPatriot]

Were they sent from his private email or work email account ... if it was from his government email account, then the emails don't belong to him, they belong to we the tax-payer...

In which case I'm pretty pissed that my tax money goes to pay someone to discuss their wardrobe during a natural disaster.

This is a conservative board. You should be pissed too.

However, if the emails are from his private personal email account and we're sent outside of working time, nobody has any business busting this guys ass about this long after he is out of the organization. We all deserve some privacy or leniency.

[Ramius]

I would assume that they are emails within the FEMA mail system. The ownership of them is not in question. It's the part about making them public merely for the purpose of ridicule that is a cheap shot. They are nothing more than informal chitchat between colleagues. To insist that such informal communications should never or must never happen is simply unrealistic and counterproductive. There is nothing inherently wrong with letting employees use a mail system for the whole range of communications, from very formal to very informal. There is even a certain amount of sense in letting employees have some reasonable lattitude for personal use. Its all about reasonableness.

There's nothing in these that is unethical, or illegal, or even all that unwise. It's just chat between colleagues when one of them has been on TV. If I were suddenly on national television, I wouldn't be surprised if some of my co-workers sent me some emails about my appearance, joking or otherwise. Big deal.

[FCVMCT]

Just reads thru it all -- most of them in in .gov, unfortunately.

Ugh, can't wait to get home and watch the MSM salivate all over this one...

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

In which case I'm pretty pissed that my tax money goes to pay someone to discuss their wardrobe during a natural disaster.

As I understand it Mr. Brown is still on the Government pay roll as a Consultant.

Unfortunately, I think that many people on this board are all too will to give Mr. Brown a Pass because he has an R next to his name.

Could you imagine the Outrage here if a Clinton Appointee had done the same thing?

We would be looking at 2000+ posts.