The New York Times reported today that Michael Brown told someone in the White House around midnight Tuesday morning that the levees in New Orleans had been breached and the city was flooding. The article doesn’t say who Brown told or when that information reached Bush, but it does incorrectly allege that Bush was on vacation in Texas that Tuesday. In fact, he was in San Diego giving a speech about the war. Now, Drudge is reporting that the White House is asking the NYT for a retraction:

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