Mercy me! Will wonders never cease? MSMNBC Brian Williams tonight conceded (verbally) that "BREACHING OF THE LEVEES COULD NOT HAVE BEEN FORESEEN" while the graphic on-screen just said "Levees-What Went Wrong?"
The story was about the 17th Street Canal levee only and showed a few pix of it. Then an animation of how the floodwaters tilted the levee floodwall, which then poured water down the crack between the tilted wall and the earthen fill below it. "Weak soil" behind that then allowed the wall to completely collapse.
Army Corps of Engineers people 1) made the observation 2) said it was an unusual event that couldn't have been anticipated by anyone (gee, would that include the POTUS in the observers of the "unforeseen"?) and 3) said they are studying the failure to see that it doesn't happen again.
Then they had another Army Corps of Engineers person say it "should have been foreseen" and taken care of.
THEN, Williams said FBI investigations are now taking place into allegations of "contract fraud" and "nepotism in the granting of contracts" for the levee work by the levee board. (Think we'll hear any follow-up on this, boys and girls?)
All said in as small and non-descript a voice as possible, in comparison to the shrieking shrillness of this same story one week ago! Grrrr!
Unbelievable, isn't it???