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America Betrayed

Jan 1, 2008 · 1h 34m
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Writer/director Leslie Carde finds her villain in the US Army Corps of Engineers, an agency whose primary aim is supposed to be that of protecting the nation's citizenry from potential disasters caused by the structural failure of dams, bridges, levees, buildings etc. Instead, the Corps, in cahoots with the many politicians and congressmen who work right along with it, has been found, over and over again, to be derelict in its duties - guilty of negligence, of employing harmful cost-cutting measures, of having misplaced priorities, of engaging in outright deception, and of brokering sweetheart deals with pet contractors. The movie is unsparing in its treatment of the Corps, and Carde clearly views it as her own personal mission to hold that organization accountable for the many acts of criminal malfeasance it has engaged in over the years.

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Richard Dreyfuss
Narrator
Robert Bea
Himself
Joey DiFatta
Himself
Steve Ellis
Himself
Lucille Franz
Herself
Cynthia Hedge-Morrell
Herself
Judy Hoffmeister
Herself
Mary Landrieu
Self
Directed by Leslie Carde

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EN
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US
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