Some of you may know that the new head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), General Van Antwerp, is in New Orleans today, and has a press conference scheduled for 4 PM, CDT.
Some of you may also know that the Corps has had an internal investigation of the design, installation and operation of the floodgate pumps underway since last September. In a May 2, 2007 letter letter to Senator David Vitter, now-retired Corps Commander General Strock publicly revealed the existence of this investigation. He said the investigation would be complete sometime during May. He also said the investigation would be turned over to the GAO so that the GAO inquiry into these same matters would be robust.
Today is May 31. The Corps internal investigation has not been released. It has not been turned over to GAO, who issued their findings last week. If GAO had received the Corps internal investigation, they would have mentioned it, but they didn't. They never got it, because the Corps didn't turn it over to them. The Corps ran out the clock on the GAO.
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