"A contrite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took responsibility Thursday for the flooding of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and said the levees failed because they were built in a disjointed fashion using outdated data.
'This is the first time that the Corps has had to stand up and say, `We've had a catastrophic failure,'' Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, the Corps chief, said as the agency issued a 6,000-page-plus report on the disaster on Day 1 of the new hurricane season."
Friday, June 02, 2006
Contrite Corps? Are they learning?
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