Apparently, it doesn't take much to surprise these guys.

Shocked, shocked I am, that there is lawlessness in the midst of all this misery:

FEMA 'Surprised' by Lawlessness

The head of the federal disaster relief agency said Friday it's "heartbreaking and very, very frustrating" to witness the virtual anarchy in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and defended the Bush administration's response.

Interviewed on several network morning news shows, Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, blamed emergency assistance delivery problems on "the total lack of communications, the inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was actually occurring there."

This sounds oddly familiar ... oh, right:

WMD: Bad Intelligence, But More

... Most of Iraq's WMD materials had been destroyed because Iraq believed U.N. weapons inspectors would find them and because they feared disclosures by Saddam's son-in-law following his defection in 1995.

The large question is why American and British intelligence didn't know these things.

Apparently, you just can't use the phrases "Bush administration" and "good intelligence" in the same sentence.