DEFIANT TESTIMONY: Former federal disaster chief Michael Brown testified that he told the White House that New Orleans was being flooded as Hurricane Katrina swept through.

CONFLICTING STORIES: The Bush administration has maintained that it did not know the extent of flooding until after the storm had passed.

POOR COMMUNICATION: Brown said that he told the White House and not the Homeland Security Department because the agency “just bogged things down.”

By The Associated Press

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