From the “You Can’t Make This Shit Up Department”
FEMA gets caught once again with it’s proverbial pants down
DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press
October 27, 2007 at 2:56 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — The chief on Saturday lashed into his own employees for staging a phony news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I’ve seen since I’ve been in government,” said.
“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,” he added.
Asked specifically if he planned to fire anyone at FEMA, which is part of his department, Mr. Chertoff declined to say, citing personnel rules.
“There will be appropriate discipline,” he told reporters at a news conference with New York’s governor where they announced an agreement on a driver’s license plan.
Mr. Chertoff said he knew nothing about the matter until after it happened and that he “can’t explain why it happened.” (More…)
[tags]FEMA, wild fires, fake news, no not that kind of fake news real fake news, idiots[/tags]
