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FEMA Employees Pose as Reporters PDF Print E-mail
by Tom McGregor    Fri, Oct 26, 2007, 06:52 PM

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. government’s main disaster-response agency, apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California’s wildfires that no news organization attended. FEMA is still struggling to restore its image after the bungled handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Reuters, a business news-wire service, quotes a statement by FEMA deputy administrator Harvey Johnson, who conducted the briefing, as reading, “we can and must do better, and apologize for the error in judgment. Our intent was to provide useful information and be responsive to the many questions we have received.”

A spokeswoman for Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security Secretary, who has authority over FEMA, called the incident, “inexcusable and offensive to the secretary.”

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written by LBJ , October 27, 2007

I am pleased and proud to see big government acting this way. FEMA, you are great : do not be discouraged by criticism from the press, or from mere citizens and voters : go ahead and lie and fool them, and crush them down. Earn your budgeted taxpayer money in the way that will make me and Joe Stalin prouder yet of you.




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written by randye , October 27, 2007

I don't know, given Reuters' fake photos, Dan's fake documents, TNR's and the NYT's fake reporting, the Duke case and the Katrina coverage, a little fake news conferrence seems to fit right in.


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written by Lolly , October 28, 2007

January 20, 2009.


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written by john k. , October 29, 2007

It was somewhat like Saturday Night Live.



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