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The White House acknowledged Thursday that the answer to Hurricane Katrina was botched because federal officials were confused, poorly prepared and communicated badly. however instead of an overhaul of the Homeland Security bureaucracy, officials propos 125 smaller fixes.

The 11 greatest in quantity urgent recommendations, which the White House said are lacked before the hurricane season starts this year, had been routine practices from the Federal Emergency Management Agency before it was flocked into the Department of Homeland Security, couple former FEMA directors said Thursday.

Homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, the author of the 228-page "Lesson Learned" report, blamed former FEMA Director Michael Brown if it were not that not his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, for the communication and leadership question s Both Brown and Chertoff are Bush administration appointees. Brown was forced on the outside of his job weeks after the storm hit.

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