Green Options » army corps of engineers http://greenoptions.com/tag/army-corps-of-engineers Posts tagged 'army corps of engineers' Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:24:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Corps of Engineers Caught Harassing Activist Group’s Blog http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/22/corps-of-engineers-caught-harassing-activist-groups-blog/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/22/corps-of-engineers-caught-harassing-activist-groups-blog/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:24:50 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/22/corps-of-engineers-caught-harassing-activist-groups-blog/ hurricane katrina flooding in new orleans

Many bloggers and webmasters are wont to check their stats so often it borders on behavior that could be classified as obsessive-compulsive. Fortunately, that is how the folks behind the scenes at the New Orleans-based activist group, Levees.org learned that the harassing comments being left at their blog were coming from computers registered to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Well, maybe they weren’t OC about checking their stats, but after this incident, I’m guessing they just might be now.

Levees.org is a watchdog activist group that is pushing for an independent analysis of the “failure of the federal flood protection system” in metro New Orleans on August 29, 2005.” The group’s founder, Sandy Rosenthal did some digging into her stats after an unusually high volume of “negative comments” began rolling into the blog.

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