"In a sworn affidavit, a former managing editor of Nola.com, New Orleans' largest online newsource describes how the Army Corps of Engineers used significant tax payer resources to attack critics of the Corps.
"According to the affidavit, a cadre of [approximately] 20 people, for over 3 years, have hidden their identities and posted comments on the Times-Picayune affiliate's articles and forums that smeared New Orleanians and obscured the facts of the Corps of Engineers' responsibility for the failure of its flood protection.
"Hiding their identities, these people at the Corps masqueraded as ordinary citizens and attempted to rewrite the history of the New Orleans flooding by posting misinformation on the internet with the region’s leading news source - the Times Picayune."
http://levees.org/?page_id=379Affidavit here:
http://levees.org/affidavit.pdf