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Article: A Katrina Brownout; Local pols think the White House blew off rebuilding New Orleans. Behind the latest battle to get it right.(Hurricane Katrina)(New Orleans, Louisiana)
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- Newsweek
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- February 20, 2006
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Byline: Evan Thomas and Holly Bailey (With Richard Wolffe, Mark Hosenball and Arian Campo-Flores)
In America, there are always second acts. One of the most breathtaking was on display last week on Capitol Hill, where former FEMA director Michael Brown--the much-ridiculed goat of the federal government's sorry response to Hurricane Katrina--was magically resurrecting himself as a heroic whistle-blower. Testifying before a Senate committee, Brown declared that he had informed the White House and the Department of Homeland Security of a levee breech on the day of the storm and warned that "we were realizing our worst nightmare." He scoffed at statements by ...
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