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Michael D. Brown, the former federal emergency management chief who became a ridiculed symbol of the Bush administration's flawed response to Hurricane Katrina, returned in anger to Capitol Hill on Friday and lashed back at his former superiors. Mr. Brown said that he told a senior White House official early on of the New Orleans flooding, and that the administration was too focused on terrorism to respond properly to natural disasters. Testifying before a Senate committee, Mr. Brown said he notified a senior White House official, probably Joe Hagin, the deputy White House chief of staff, but might have been Andrew H. Card Jr., the chief of staff, on the day the hurricane hit to report that it had turned into his worst nightmare and that New Orleans was flooding.