These people saw an opportunity to steal and scam as soon as Bush allowed himself to be politically outmanuevered by the left and announced 200 billion to rebuild Nawlins. The chickens have come home to roost. What makes this newsworthy?
Aside to conspiracy theorists: How about this? The majority of government workers at all but the most stratospheric levels are Democrats (this truth is supported only by my willing to bet serious money on it) whose natural bureaucratic sloth is aggravated by the hope that if they do their job poorly a Republican administration and Congress will look bad and be voted out.