Forensics report on Levee Failures
by Christian Roselund Tuesday, May. 23, 2006 at 11:00 AM

A group of forensics experts led by some professors from UC Berkeley released a damning 738-page report on the levee failures during hurricane Katrina. They found a system that was "pervasively flawed" (surprise, surprise), and said that the failure was at all levels of government, including the Feds, the local levee board, and to a lesser extent the Army Corps of Engineers. The website below contains a .pdf (adobe acrobat file) of the entire report

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Part 1 of Head Investigator Professor Raymond Seed of UC Berkeley's presentation.

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Part 2 of Professor Seed's presentation
by Christian Roselund Tuesday, May. 23, 2006 at 11:00 AM

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Part 3 of Professor Seed's presentation
by Christian Roselund Tuesday, May. 23, 2006 at 11:00 AM

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conclusion by Raymond Seed
by Christian Roselund Tuesday, May. 23, 2006 at 11:00 AM

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