I have one for you.
First, take these paragraphs, complete with quotes from over a year ago:

In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness.

On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: “It appears that the money [for the levees] has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.”

The quotes are from this article from Editor and Publisher, which is a reputable source that covers the media. (The article happens to be titled “Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen? ‘Times-Picayune’ Had Repeatedly Raised Federal Spending Issues”.)

Turns out the Department of Homeland Security (God bless the motherhomeland!) is coordinating a lot of the federal relief efforts. And hey now! They’re the same people who directly benefited from the diverted funds from the levee building to homeland security! Because nooooo, levees in a city that is below sea level aren’t a security issue! Not one bit!

What a fucking laugh. It’s had me flying into bitter rages chuckling for the past few days.

Big ups to Gannet for finding this article.