Justice Department's attempt to blame environmentalists for flood

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Full headline: Democrats savage Justice Department over apparent attempt to blame environmentalists for flood

An email message which suggested the Bush Justice Department was looking to blame environmentalists for a break in the New Orleans levee and the ensuing flood has sparked vehement responses among the Democratic caucus in Congress, RAW STORY has learned.

One congressman, ranking House Judiciary Democrat John Conyers (D-MI), penned a stiff letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales demanding answers.

In the email, obtained by the Mississippi-based Clarion-Ledger, the Justice Department wrote: "Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New Orleans? If so, please describe the case and the outcome of the litigation."

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) fired off this statement to RAW STORY.

“If the President is sincere when he says he accepts responsibility for the abysmal federal response to Hurricane Katrina, he should instruct his Justice Department to stop trying to smear environmentalists by blaming them for the government's failure to shore up the levee system in Louisiana," the California Democrat said.

More: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Democrats_savage_Justice_Department_over_move_to_blame_environmentalists_for_leve_0917.html

[rodeodance]

1. This (below) sure sounds like something Rove would conjure up. Maybe

I give him too much credit but ......

..."Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New Orleans? If so, please describe the case and the outcome of the litigation."

[Jamastiene]

2. Oh shit, I've heard it all and then some now. If the idiot had listened

to environmentalists, some of these nasty flooding/storming/damaging/glacier breaking catastrophes wouldn't be happening right now.

[Benhurst]

3. Yeah, we all know how powerful the environmentalists have been

since the Bush Crime Family and their gang of thugs pulled off their coup in 2000.

:sarcasm:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Nominated. They can invent lies for Floodgate, but they just get deeper.

[Name removed]

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