But, as the report said, this is the most expensive engineering failure in world history! Seems that would generate a little bit of notice.

I think probably anyone with engineering experience suspected this from the beginning, because it was obvious as the reports came in that this wasn’t simply one breach – this was a total systemic failure of massive proportions. And it’s easy to understand why the Corps wants to hide this: if this system was so fundamentally inadequate and poorly engineered, it’s logical to surmise that most of the southern La. levee systems are in similarly poor shape, which means that they are all just window dressing to make people feel comfortable when they live in dangerous, flood prone areas.