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FEMA Rips Phony Press Event?

The Associated Press:
The homeland security chief on Saturday tore 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.

Related:
Fake FEMA news conference director gets promotion
Raw Story
CNN reports that John "Pat" Philbin, the Director of Public Affairs responsible for FEMA's recent faked news conference, is effectively receiving a promotion. PRNewser was notified by an email which said that Philbin's new job was an "amazing opportunity to head the communications shop at ODNI." Philbin is slated to become Director of Public Affairs for the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell. The following video is from CNN's Newsroom, broadcast on October 28, 2007.

Posted by Editor at October 29, 2007 01:01 AM