The Corps, its whistleblower and Katrina

The Writing Corner by Beth Wellington | Oct. 10, 2007 (Special Report)

The story of the pumps is especially troubling as they were supplied by Bush family business partner and political supporter J. David Eller of MWI, already under investigation since 1999 for supplying faulty pumps in Nigeria. The ACE had also awarded a contract to rebuild the levees to the former ACE officials who had designed the problematic levees in the first place. Full Story »

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Julian Friedland
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 by Julian Friedland - Oct. 1, 2008

Valuable digging. But still precious little revealed on what exactly the problem is. Is it just that the pumps have not been adequately tested? Or can they not do the job regardless? Perhaps the MSM is digging further right now in order to avoid screwing up, like, say Dan Rather. Or it's being buried. Lots of tangential stuff mentioned about further webs of conflicts of interest, which is interesting in it's own right.

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