Anyone else see a pattern here?

MSNBC reporting on Condoleeza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 Commission (emphasis mine):

Rice added that the brief mentioned conventional hijackings, not the possibility that planes would be used as weapons.

FEMA head and resident idiot Mike Brown, today:

We thought we had the standard hurricane and that we'd immediately respond and have things in order in a couple of days and then the levee broke and that hampered us and then some idiots decided they'd get guns and start shooting and that almost put our rescue efforts at a halt.