_Click here: CNN.com - Brown: E-mail shows Bush glad FEMA took Katrina flak - Jun 9, 2006_ (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/09/ka trina.email/index.html) Excerpt: The e-mail stated that Bush was relieved that Brown -- and not Bush or Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff -- was bearing the brunt of the flak over the government's handling of Katrina. (_Watch how Brown fell from grace -- 4:00_ (javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/politics/2006/06/09/todd.brown.email.cnn','2006/06/16');) ) The September 2005 e-mail reads: "I did hear of one reference to you, at the Cabinet meeting yesterday. I wasn't there, but I heard someone commented that the press was sure beating up on Mike Brown, to which the president replied, 'I'd rather they beat up on him than me or Chertoff.' " The sender adds, "Congratulations on doing a great job of diverting hostile fire away from the leader."