Brown Asserts He Alerted White House Quickly on Katrina - New York Times

Brown Asserts He Alerted White House Quickly on Katrina - New York Times: "Michael D. Brown, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, testified today that he let senior White House staffers know as soon as he had heard that flooding had begun in New Orleans on the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

Mr. Brown also called claims by top officials at the Department of Homeland Security that they weren't aware of levee breaches until the next day ' just baloney.'

Mr. Brown said that homeland security officials were being regularly updated by reports delivered through video conference calls, and that he personally contacted White House officials."