"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military failed to provide adequate emergency communications for Hurricane Katrina response, contributing to days of confusion after the storm devastated Mississippi and Louisiana, the admiral in charge of domestic defense forces (Adm. Timothy Keating) said on Thursday."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050929/ts_nm/hurricanes_communications_dc

Now there's an honorable man who understands the problems with the federal response to Katrina, and can probably be trusted to do what is needed to fix them.