FEMA digs a bigger hole for themselves...

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26366100.htm

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - 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 organizations attended.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, still struggling to restore its image after the bungled handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, issued the apology after The Washington Post published details of the Tuesday briefing.

"We can and must do better, and apologize for this error in judgment," FEMA deputy administrator Harvey Johnson, who conducted the briefing, said in a statement. "Our intent was to provide useful information and be responsive to the many questions we have received."

No actual reporter attended the news conference in person, agency spokesman Aaron Walker said.

Do my eyes decieve me?

An apology???????? By a right wing department????? By conservatives????

:wow:

Another "Wag the Dog" moment brought to you by your corrupt Republicans in American Government. :puke:

If the intent was to "provide useful information and be responsive to the many questions" then it was not necessary to have government employees pose as journalists. There could have been an explanation that the questions were received by telephone. Then the questions and answers could be read from the podium. It still would be troubling that FEMA officials were hand-picking questions, but I find the attempt to portray the briefing as an actual news conference to be reprehensible.