What destroyed New Orleans? Most people will say it was Hurricane Katrina.

And most people would be wrong.

It was the levee failures.

How is it that this simple fact has been obscured for so long?

One way was that uniformed eye witnesses were ordered not to report the levee failures. This video gives the details:

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