1.0 link 16747 <![CDATA[Overtopping vs. Breaching]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/overtopping-vs-breaching_b_16747.html A major Republican talking point in response to the Katrina briefing video released this week by the AP has focused on the distinction between "breaching"--as in the Bush statement to ABC that nobody anticipated the levees breaching--and "overtopping", the word used by National Hurricane Center head Max Mayfield in the briefing video. And on Friday night the AP issued a clarification that focused on the conflation of those two terms, much to the joy of the right-bloggers.

But those...

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