What Brian Isn't Reporting

Asked pointblank if he would live adjacent to the levees abutting MR-GO, Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea answered "no." Isn't that simple enough for television news?
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It was originally reported by the Times Picayune two Saturdays ago that Dr. Robert Bea (pronounced "Bay"), a professor of engineering at UC Berkeley, had been examining the Corps of Engineers' repair work on the levee adjoining the MR-GO canal, and found the Corps using sandy, peaty soils in the levee repairs -- the same problem that, he and two other teams of independent forensic engineers concluded, led to the breach of the 17th St. Canal. (Flooding up the MR-GO was responsible for the destruction of St. Bernard Parish) Now, WWL Radio has interviewed Dr. Bea (on last Friday's Garland Robinette Show, not archived online). Asked pointblank by the host his level of confidence in the repair work at the MR-GO levee, on a scale of one to ten, Dr. Bea answered, "five." Asked pointblank if he would live adjacent to the levees abutting MR-GO, Dr. Bea answered "no." Isn't that simple enough for television news?

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