A Bad Week for the Army Corps of Engineers
This has been a very bad week for the Army Corps of Engineers. First, Bunnatine Greenhouse, former chief oversight official of contracts for Corps operations in Iraq received nearly a million dollar settlement after she was demoted 6 years ago for blowing the whistle on unfair awarding of a contract to Halliburton. Days later, an […]
Levees.org is guest on NPR
An Associated Press story just reported that some at the Corps of Engineers New Orleans District have won awards for their efforts since the deadly levee failures in 2005. A Corps news release said the team won the awards for the “hard work” and “professional excellence … to reduce risk for the people of the […]
Investigator: LSU abused its power and trust
The watchdog of academic rigor has issued its report concluding its year long investigation of the retaliatory firing of Ivor van Heerden from LSU. Dr. Charles Figley was part of the investigation team convened by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Yesterday, when the report was released, Dr. Figley wrote to me and other […]
