Beaver,
Sorry for the ignorance but I don't know who Michael Brown is. All I know is that this is now a blame game between the two agencies which no one is going to come out better off.
There is another threat though in the horizon which nobody right now is addressing and it is the Part NCC coming in August which, despite the derogation (Which still have no official announcement or publication that confirms the delay) will end up
with the same result e.g third party CPL/ATPL will not be able to fly in Europe without EASA license.