Its good to see CNN growing some balls. Anderson was particularly good here.

"Chertoff, fielding questions from reporters, said government officials did not expect both a powerful hurricane and a breach of levees that would flood the city of New Orleans."

This Times-Picayune piece from 2002 (mentioned in the CNN article) is well worth a read. There have been some rightful alarmists around for some time, but as Bush and other administration officials would have you believe, this was some sort of freakish occurance out of left field.