1.0 link 13059 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/katrinas-smoking-gun-appe_b_13059.html Today's Times-Picayune again leads the media pack, obtaining documents that forensic investigators looking into the Katrina floodwall breaches have found, documents that clearly pinpoint the moment when the Corps of Engineers appear to have engaged in what the paper's Chris Rose bluntly calls "criminal negligence". The documents, dating from 1990, show that the Corps' Vicksburg, Miss., office clearly calls into question engineering assumptions about soil strengths at the site of the 17th St. Canal floodwall project, then in final...

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