Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, on the revelation that the Federal Emergency Management Agency organised a "fake news conference," with Fema staff pretending to be journalists and asking softball questions:
I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen since I've been in government ... 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.
And this from the agency that oversaw the response to Hurricane Katrina.