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Nothing solid. It's late, I was speculating out loud.

I started with the governor''s and mayor's responses about the 'legality' of issuing a mandatory evacuation order. Also heard how the "levee board" knew the sections that ended up breeching, were known to be on the priority list for repair/upgrade, and were using a temporary(semi-permanent) levee system.. People involved in the Orleans Levee Board corruption are prominent lawyers who are part of the Governor's legal counsel. Small state politics, long trail of people already convicted. Bush would do well making the corruption of NO a national debate, and install a special prosecutor.

This is all new to me, over the years I've researched NJ's horrible corruption and because I'm here, learned the NJ system first hand. This is the first days I've seriously looked into La.'s politics. I don't see any way the people responsible will leave paper trails.

I'll return to this in due time, and am sure we will see others exploring this line of inquiry.