Maybe Bush didn't drown New Orleans, but he's intent on holding her under

posted by The Vidiot @ 8:13 PM Permalink

Corps report ignores call for specifics
Details of Category 5 protections left out
Saturday, July 01, 2006

The Army Corps of Engineers, which was directed by Congress to prepare a report on how to protect Louisiana from a Category 5 hurricane, is poised to issue a vaguely-worded document that will not list the specific projects that would be needed to secure the state's fragile coastline.

The report was to be issued Friday, but the corps postponed action until July 10 after several heated exchanges with representatives of Gov. Kathleen Blanco who say the Bush administration has inappropriately removed a list of specific projects that corps engineers had included in the document's initial draft.
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In a letter to Maj. Gen. Don T. Riley Friday, Blanco coastal adviser Sidney Coffee was critical of a White House "policy review (that) resulted in the rewriting of the entire executive summary and much of the report, without consultation with the Corps/State Project Delivery Team."
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Corps officials would not comment on the delay. "There will not be a release of the report today," said New Orleans corps spokesman John Hall. "The document is under review by the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, and that's all I can say at this point."

Gee, you'd never guess that the assistant secretary of the Army for civil works is a Bush appointee, one John Paul Woodley Jr. Well, it's not like Bush has a history of ignoring Congressionally mandated reports ... well except this, and this, ... and this.