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  • Tide of Lies Swamps NY Times: Employees Riot and Steal Office Supplies

    09/01/2005 9:23:19 PM PDT · by Congressman Billybob · 60 replies · 6,092+ views
    Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 1 September 2005 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)
    No, this isn’t about Maureen Dowd or Paul Krugman. That’s too easy. It’s about a story on flooding in New Orleans today (1 September). Here’s the lead: “The 17th Street levee that gave way and led to the flooding of New Orleans was part of an intricate, aging system of barriers and pumps that was so chronically underfinanced that senior regional officials of the Army Corps of Engineers complained about it publicly for years.” The second and third paragraphs say: “Often leading the chorus was Alfred C. Naomi, a senior project manager for the corps... [who] grew particularly frustrated this...