Why would FEMA turn away badly needed resources (water and fuel)? Why would they cut emergency communication lines?

It looks to me like FEMA was actively sabotaging the efforts of local people to get control of the situation and save lives.

Why would FEMA do that? I have been tending to think that the problem so far has been a criminal lack of concern by the president and his administration for the lives of the people in the area, but I am beginning to think the problem might be something even more serious and criminal.

It's beginning to look to me like the administration actually wanted to maximize the chaos, tragedy and death for the purpose of accomplishing some kind of agenda. I guess there could be any number of reasons why they would want to do that. The first one that comes to mind is, of course, to make the Democrat governor look bad, and to help them get one of their own elected next time around. I'll be paying close attention from now on to see in what other ways the administration might think they could benefit from such criminal activity.