The Corps: Forced to Back Away?

Senator Mary Landrieu thought she'd authored a law requiring the Corps of Engineers to deliver a plan for so-called Category 5 hurricane protection for New Orleans and southern Louisiana.
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So Senator Mary Landrieu thought she'd authored a law requiring the Corps of Engineers to deliver a plan for so-called Category 5 hurricane protection for NO and southern Louisiana. But, as today's Times-Picayune reports, the Corps has not only missed the deadline for the supposed fast-track report (missing deadlines around NO has become commonplace for the agency), but the draft of the report the paper's Mark Shleifstein has seen removes all specific projects and instead focuses on vague "matrices" for future decision-making. The story itself is slightly opaque on what happened, but suggests that the office of an Assistant Secretary of Defense has its fingerprints on the changes. But don't worry: Anderson Cooper will keep them honest.

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