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Old 10-27-2007
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FEMA Fakes A News Conference

Heya,

It seems that FEMA really doesn't want to answer questions anymore. Instead they need to stage a fake news conference with FEMA people acting as reporters. I think that if they have reached this stage then they need to be disbanded and another agency started to take over their duties.

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The Associated Press
Friday, October 26, 2007; 5:43 PM

WASHINGTON -- The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday for staging a phony news 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 independent reporters Tuesday and ask questions of Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the agency's deputy director.

The questions were predictably soft and gratuitous.
FEMA Workers Play Role of Reporters

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Re: FEMA Fakes A News Conference

isn't this administration SOP, fill the audience with friendlies and confederates? i think once we get the current batch of nincompoops out of power, FEMA will at least return to its original marginal-but-acceptable level of performance. but yeah, until the neocons get the fuck outta dodge FEMA is, like just about every other arm of government the conjobs care about enough to ruin, a waste of space and an excuse to reward political allies by appointing them to jobs they aren't qualified for.
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I can't imagine FEMA doing this without the knowledge of HLS, or even the White House.
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Re: FEMA Fakes A News Conference

wow fire all that did it and those in charge
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wow fire all that did it and those in charge
I agree.

P.S. you do realize that ultimately, Bush was in charge right?
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I can't imagine FEMA doing this without the knowledge of HLS, or even the White House.
yes of course bush okayed it.....gee whiz ....



anyway, they should get to the highest authority who authorized this and can his ass.
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I agree.

P.S. you do realize that ultimately, Bush was in charge right?
thats stretching the captian of the ship stricture a little far isn't it?
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ultimately, Bush was in charge right?
In the sense that the President has the ultimate responsibility - of course he is charge. But there are plenty of things that happen in our vast web of government (good and bad) that he is never aware of. I'm not making a judgement with regard to this incident. But it would stand to reason that FEMA blundered this and the President found out after the fact. Wouldn't surprise me.
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