"??They wanted unlimited access to the buildings, which we could not give to anyone in the media,? said Gloria Roemer, a spokesperson for Harris County, which has jurisdiction over the Astrodome complex. Currently reporters are allowed in only on 15-minute guided tours.

According to Roemer, FEMA officials also believed they could not allocate ??scarce? electricity, office space, and phone and Internet access to the volunteer station??even though activists say they offered to run the station on batteries and use their own cellphones. "

Sounds like they had their reasons. Enough people running around without maybe having some more that apparently didn't want to abide by the rules.

But of course Gothhead smells a conspiracy brewing in the wind!!