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New Orleans Levee Inspections Lacked Seriousness
Local commissioners tasked with maintaining New Orleans levees did very little actual inspection of the floodwalls that failed during Hurricane Katrina, according to interviews with congressional investigators released Thursday by a Senate panel. Instead, Orleans Levee District commissioners "normally meet and get some beignets and coffee in the morning," former commission president James P. Huey said in a partial deposition released at a hearing to examine who was responsible for overseeing the floodwalls. "You have commissioners," Huey told investigators. "They have some news cameras following you around, and all of this stuff. And you have your little beignets, and then you have - you go do the tourist and that and you have a nice lunch somewhere or whatever. They have this stop-off thing or whatever. And that's what the inspections are about."
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