CNN.com - Brown says he's been made Katrina scapegoat - Feb 10, 2006

CNN.com - Brown says he's been made Katrina scapegoat - Feb 10, 2006: "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The embattled former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency portrayed himself during testimony Friday as a scapegoat who had fought for emergency aid to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

'I was as frustrated as everyone' at 'the slowness of the response. I was screaming and cussing,' Michael Brown told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is probing the government's sluggish response to the disaster.

Before Katrina's landfall, he said he had pushed the appropriate officials 'to cut every piece of red tape ... to do everything they humanly could to respond to this.'"