lol FEMA got caught doing Fake Press event

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lol FEMA got caught doing Fake Press event

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FEMA did a fake news conference on tuesday about the Wildfires in California....they were caught red handed Laughing

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Chertoff Rips Phony Press Event

Saturday October 27, 2007 7:46 PM

By DEVLIN BARRETT

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The homeland security chief on Saturday lashed into his own employees for staging a phony news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

``I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen since I've been in government,'' Michael Chertoff said.

``I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again and there will be appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgment,'' he added.

Asked specifically if he planned to fire anyone at FEMA, which is part of his department, Chertoff declined to say, citing personnel rules.

``There will be appropriate discipline,'' he told reporters at a news conference with New York's governor where they announced an agreement on a driver's license plan.

Chertoff said he knew nothing about the matter until after it happened and that he ``can't explain why it happened.''

The White House on Friday scolded FEMA for the faux press conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in southern California.

The agency - much maligned for its sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina over two years ago - arranged to have FEMA employees play the part of reporters at the event Tuesday and question Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy director.

The questions were soft and gratuitous.

``I'm very happy with FEMA's response,'' Johnson said in reply to one query from an agency employee.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/s ... 55,00.html

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Here is Keith Olbermann's take of that press conference Laughing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_0kuQZNirI
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