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FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing
theodp writes "The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters. All the while, real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions. In the briefing, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., FEMA's deputy administrator, called on questioners who did not disclose that they were FEMA employees, and gave replies emphasizing that his agency's response to this week's California wildfires was far better than its response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005."
Anyway on topic
Whoever thought up the idea for this and whoever allowed it to happen should be hit with a large wet trout until they are so afraid of fish that they can no longer bear the sight of water because it might just might contain fish. I just hope the White House doesn't decide this is a good example to follow. If so I am going to go find an island somewhere and start living there because I am not afraid of fish and I am afraid having an elected government without anyway for us the people who elect to be able to know what those we elected are actually doing.
Right, because the governments in Europe are so much better. "Our people voted against the EU Constitution, what will we do? Oh, I know let's just quietly put it into place anyway."
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison