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First Jack, then Scooter... What other big name Administration ideologues, sleazeballs, and incompetent insiders are turning heel on their beloved?

Potentially, Mr. Michael Brown, disgraced "heck of a job" leader of FEMA, who boldly led the disaster managment forces of Homeland Security into new levels of worthlessness and betrayal:

Brown's stance, in a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, follows senators' complaints that the White House is refusing to answer questions or release documents about advice given to Bush concerning the August 29 storm.

Brown quit as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency days after Katrina struck. He left the federal payroll November 2.

In a February 6 letter to White House counsel Harriet Miers, Brown's lawyer wrote that Brown continues to respect Bush and his "presidential prerogative" to get candid and confidential advice from top aides.

The letter from Andrew W. Lester also says Brown no longer can rely on being included in that protection because he is a private citizen.

"Unless there is specific direction otherwise from the president, including an assurance the president will provide a legal defense to Mr. Brown if he refuses to testify as to these matters, Mr. Brown will testify if asked about particular communications," the lawyer wrote.

Brown's desire "is that all facts be made public."

In other words, Brownie's sudden push toward nobility is based entirely around the premise that his former boss had better provide him with legal protection. Even when he's about to divulge some of the most vital communications during the worst breakdown of American domestic life in recent memory, the only way he can do so is by essentially ransoming it. Were his desire that all facts be made public, he would have stated them when he was testifying in front of Congress and had that legal protection.

And yet... America deserves to know what he knows. Come clean. Do at least one thing right, Brownie.

And why aren't the Dems out there demanding that, with this new information, Brownie be held legally responsible to testify?