The bottom line I got out of this is that unless you were a lobbyist, they did not want you to participate.

If we don't undertake the levee reconstruction and coastal restoration, we're just leaving New Orleans more vulnerable than it was before.

We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.

We agree that every single foot of the I-walls is suspect. When asked, we have constantly urged anyone returning to New Orleans to exercise caution, because the system now in place could fail in a Category 2 storm. It has already failed during a fast-moving Category 3 storm that missed New Orleans by 30 miles.

He tried the best that he could, under the circumstances.

They should have been monitoring this and informed people all the way to the top, then they should have warned people.