Personally, I wouldn't have thought this way. I'm truly floored by this. If this "FBI investigation/ discovery" turns out to be a truthful story, this could end up being one of the most important scandals of the last 100 years.
Just watch. They'll claim these police officers all died in Katrina/flood and therefore we're all evil, heartless republicans for even questioning this. ;)
Oh, I agree it will be a HUGE scandal if it pans out. Put as soon as I saw Nagin and Blanco behaving weirdly even BEFORE Katrina hit, I suspected something foul was behind the weirdness. The sudden and excessive blame aimed by NO and LA pols at FEMA and th Federal Government in general in the immediate aftermath made me highly suspocious, and I almost immediately suspected that trying to keep political corruption from being discovered was the underlying motive -- basically the guilty were playing a game of legerdomain, of trying to distract the public and the media with a preemptive attack on the FEDS, such that whem the inevitable discovery of corruption came, they would have innoculated themselves the same way the Clintons did with their pre-emptive attacks on the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" -- the LA pols will now claim that this investigation/allegation of corruption are "pay-back" from angry feds who were embarrassed by their own poor performance in the wake of Katrina.
IOW, they will now try to pass this off as a politically motivated vendetta because they made Bush look bad after Katrina hit. But for that to work, they HAD to attack FEMA and Bush immediately after Katrina struck.
I'll go one step further and make a prediction: theose cops who were reported to have committed "suicide" in the Katrina aftermath "because they were overwhelmed" will turn out to have been murdered because they were whistleblowers who were going to turn in the corrupt cops and pols; Katrina provided the opportunity to have them killed when there were no inconvenient witnesses roaming the near empty city, and to make their deaths appear to be suicides.
This is probably going on in a lot of places. If these guys in New Orleans can figure it out, well...Many others in government can too. It seems the hurricane just blew off their cover.