Probe finds fake DHS press briefing in 2006.
Probe finds fake DHS press briefing in 2006.
Late last month, FEMA came under intense criticism for staging a fake news conference on the California wildfires at which agency staffers posed as journalists and asked softball questions. But as AP reports today, this “was not the first time a Homeland Security public affairs official has acted like a reporter by asking questions during a briefing”:
In January 2006, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked a question during a news conference in San Antonio, Texas, according to an investigation by the Homeland Security Department — the parent agency of both FEMA and ICE.
The ICE public affairs official was standing with about 12 reporters but did not identify herself when she posed the question, Homeland Security’s head of public affairs, J. Edward Fox, wrote in a Nov. 19 letter to the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee. The government employee was verbally reprimanded for asking the question after the news conference, Fox told Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
Fox has assured Thompson that “reforms to FEMA’s external affairs are already under way.”
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Any one who can pull a stunt like that needs to lose their job.
Slime.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:36 pmHi Z! Wholehearted agreement – Double Slime.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:39 pmZ: Before the trolls invade us, is it getting nippy there?
November 26th, 2007 at 6:40 pmT-R-E-A-S-O-N-!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:41 pmEverything about this administration is a total fake – all smoke & mirrors, now you see it/now you don’t – just like the old-fashioned “side shows” at the three ring circus! Disgusting – People need to know about this and call for the immediate resignation of these ridiculous assclowns who are on the payroll of the people. Sick~!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:44 pmGeez…They can’t even pull off a fake news conference. The whole shootin’ match is incompetent. Can’t wait until 1/20/2009!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:44 pmAnd we’re paying the salaries of these yokels?? When do the people get to decide whose salaries they will pay? Taxation without representation – you know what needs to be done – another Boston Tea Party Redux.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:45 pmI don’t know about anyone else but the cesspool of slime surrounding this administration is really getting disgusting to digest each day. And, the sad fact is that I believe that we’re still just scratching the surface of how Bush has totally “gutted” our entire government and the treasury of this country. People will be horrified if and when the whole truth is revealed.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:46 pmThe moment Bush leaves office in January of 09, the People had better have their hooks in him or he’ll vanish into exile in Paraguay and not be able to be brought to justice.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:47 pmPeople, please be patient. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management hasn’t come around yet to staffing DHS with those “smart people.”
They can only keep their eyes on one place, that “Justice Department”.
Priorities.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:48 pmPeople will be horrified if and when the whole truth is revealed.
Comment by Veritas
Yes, they will. The funny thing is the right side thinks time (and history) will be kind to Bush. I think the opposite. When folks start to figure out just how badly Bush has sold out this country – all hell is going to break loose. Americans are going to be livid! Bush better stay in Paraguay – if he knows what is good for him.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:56 pm/sarcasm
I’m shocked I tell you, just shocked!!
I can’t believe fine upstanding true, straight-shootin,’ real conservatives would do such a thing? OMG?
/sarcasm off
Phu(k you Botch and the Cheney you rode in on!!!!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:59 pmTheir level of corruption knows no boundaries.
Bush/Cheney
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
November 26th, 2007 at 7:00 pmZ: Before the trolls invade us, is it getting nippy there?
Comment by Veritas — November 26, 2007 @ 6:40 pm
Oh god, yes. We haven’t been warmer than 25 degrees for a week, and now the wind is picking up — snow storm tonight! Hopefully it will just be powdery snow…
November 26th, 2007 at 7:14 pmFEMA Not the Only Agency to Misrepresent
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGsWtHWt1L0l2tu5KgY5kK0IdnSgD8T5JTP81
November 26th, 2007 at 7:15 pmAny one who can pull a stunt like that needs to lose their job.
Slime.
Comment by Zooey — November 26, 2007 @ 6:36 pm
at the very least!!!! – isn’t this sort of thing also fraudulent? – how do they get away with this without being punished?
November 26th, 2007 at 7:17 pm- how do they get away with this without being punished?
Comment by shaun — November 26, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
We live in Bush World. Up is down. Wrong is right.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:19 pmComment by Zooey — November 26, 2007 @ 7:19 pm
And Dick is P^ssy!!
November 26th, 2007 at 7:26 pmZooey, If it is the powdery type, can you please make that angel. I could use it
November 26th, 2007 at 8:04 pmBush is going to have to move somewhere to keep from getting arrested. He may not get impeached, but he’s going to be held accountable on some level somewhere: war crimes, Constitutional crimes, financial crimes. He’ll have to bunk with Dick in Halliburton’s headquarters in Bahrain.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:10 pmIf the woman was standing with the ‘reporters’ I wonder if any of them noticed that she wasn’t one of them?
This is a good reason to have reporters state their affiliation before asking a question at all future press conferences, especially if it’s a Bush administration press conference. Maybe they should also have to take an oath, present ID, etc..
Isn’t this a sad state of affairs?
November 26th, 2007 at 8:29 pmHey Zooey,
Please send some snow to Northern Arizona.
Thanks,
ForTruth
November 26th, 2007 at 9:10 pm