Decade After Katrina, Pointing Finger More Firmly at Army Corps

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and JOHN SCHWARTZ - MAY 23, 2015

That the catastrophic flooding of this city was caused not merely by a powerful storm but primarily by fatal engineering flaws in the city’s flood protection system has been proved by experts, acknowledged by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and underscored by residents here to anyone who might suggest otherwise.

But the efforts to establish responsibility with ever more precision — to ascertain just how many of those flaws were due to engineering, politics or money — have not stopped.

FULL STORY: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/us/decade-after-katrina-pointing-...