Federal Emergency Management Agency, told a Senate oversight committee. "For them to claim that we didn't have awareness of it is just baloney."
Brown, who quit under fire as chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency just days after the Aug. 29 storm devastated much of the Gulf Coast area, blamed the Department of Homeland Security for decisions and policies that doomed FEMA to "a path to failure" that led to the government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina. |