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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Richard Adams

Just one of the dumbest?

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.

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