From Saturday's Washington Post (Senate Panel ...):
A Senate committee asked the Justice Department this week to provide information about legal challenges to New Orleans levee projects by environmental groups, prompting accusations that Republicans are seeking to blame environmentalists for the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
A Justice Department e-mail sent to U.S. attorney's offices in the Gulf Coast region asks for information on cases involving "environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps' work on the levees protecting New Orleans." ...
Many environmental groups and Democrats have suggested that global warming and wetlands depletion may have played a role in worsening storm damage, while many conservatives allege that efforts to protect New Orleans were hampered by environmental objections.
As the nation continues to pull together to deal with the Katrina catasphrophe (sarc).
Post-post note: As the last quote suggests, the greenies are just as guilty at attempting to assign blame for political gain as the Senate Committee/Justice Department. I haven't posted any of the those articles since it seemed like "same old, same old." When the federal government uses their vast resources in this situation it seemed to warrant some acknowledgement (I'm shocked. Shocked!).
