Army Corps Of Engineers Admits Failure In New Orleans...

CBS/AP June 1, 2006 at 05:04 PM
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With the official start of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season Thursday comes a report from the Army Corps of Engineers on the hurricane protection system in southeastern Louisiana and its deficiencies during Hurricane Katrina last year.

"The system did not perform as a system," according to the report. "The hurricane protection in New Orleans and southeast Louisiana was a system in name only."

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