How could one team of journalists be so far ahead of the curve that they discovered over a year before Hurricane Katrina that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was a national disaster itself? Watch the story of the investigation into waste and fraud that rocked FEMA and its head, Michael Brown, long before the agency's failings made front-page national news. Brown dismissed the paper's reporting, but the story wouldn't blow over, as the whole country would become painfully aware of only after Katrina hit.


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