KATRINA CANAL FAILURE DUE TO BAD CONSTRUCTION AND NEGLIGENCE DURING CLINTON ERA

NBCNews/MSNBC/(hat tip WIZBANG):

NBC News has obtained what may be a key clue, hidden in long forgotten legal documents. They reveal that when the floodwall on the 17th Street Canal was built a decade ago, there were major construction problems — problems brought to the attention of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A 1998 ruling, by an administrative judge for the Corps' Board of Contract Appeals, shows that the contractor, Pittman Construction, told the Corps that the soil and the foundation for the walls were “not of sufficient strength, rigidity and stability” to build on. ... Pittman won the contract in 1993. There already was an earthen levee made of soil. Embedded in that was a thin metal wall called sheet piling. The contractor was hired to pour concrete on top of all that to form the flood wall. ... the 1998 documents — filed as part of a legal dispute over costs — indicate the contractor complained about “weakness” of the soil and “the lack of structural integrity of the existing sheet pile around which the concrete was poured.” The ruling also referenced the “flimsiness” of the sheet piling. ... The construction company said as a result of these problems the walls were shifting and “out of tolerance,” meaning they did not meet some design specifications. Nevertheless, the Army Corps of Engineers accepted the work.

So, er um: the CANAL which broke was made badly DURING THE CLINTON ERA.

Seems to me, that the Clinton Adminstration was asleep at the wheel on this - as they were on jihadoterrorism.

Clinton turns out to have been nothing more than a philandering perjurer who - like a charlatan snake oil salesman, was too busy pumping up the "NEW ECONOMY BUBBLES" and lobbying for socialized medicine to do anything proactive when it came to our nations defenses - against the jihadists or the weather. THANKS A MILLION, BJ CLINTON!