Spinning the death toll in NOLA

There's a lot of rueful head hanging going around the media today about how they were fooled into overstating the death count in NOLA by over-emotional politicians. I think this is the more likely reason. FEMA has ordered searchers not to break into homes to look for bodies (or survivors). If no one responds to a knock on the door and they don't see a body through the window, they're supposed to move on.

If a California National Guardsmen hadn't followed his conscience instead of that inhumane federal government directive, Edgar Hollingsworth would be dead.

How many more survivors still barely clinging to life might be lost this way, and how many bodies will be missed? One wonders if they're planning to just bulldoze the houses that are allegedly empty. And why aren't they removing the bodies as they go? It couldn't be more inefficient as a recovery method but it sure would facilitate a cover-up of the body count.