According to a local NO TV station, FEMA uniforms and badges have been stolen, and are being used by robbers to loot.
...The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Saturday that many FEMA uniforms, badges and letterheads have been stolen in the New Orleans area are being used as fake identification by robbers.
FEMA leaders said the crooks are referring to themselves as "FEMA Procurement Officers," even though no such officers exist...
http://www.wdsu.com/news/4932913/detail.html
This truly is looting, unlike much of the scavaging by people who had gone days without food or water. IMO, it is also another example of the gross incompetence of a weakened FEMA under the Bush admin.
Juan Cole (www.juancole.com), the UMich Middle East expert whose blog on Iraq is the only good thing to have come out of the war on Iraq, today posts a great comparison: the Bush administration's attitude toward the looting in New Orleans, and the looting in Baghdad.
A must read.