Chertoff Rips Phony Press Event (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Chertoff Rips Phony Press Event

Saturday October 27, 2007 7:46 PM

By DEVLIN BARRETT

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The homeland security 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,” Michael Chertoff 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, Chertoff declined to say, citing personnel
rules.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7029255,00.html

[MADem]

1. Well, what else could he say? He's a rare bird in that at least he isn't trying to defend the

indefensible...!

[annabanana]

2. "dumbest and most inappropriate things"

Aww c'mon Skeletor... I'm sure you can think of one or two things more outrageous...

Chertoff and Torture
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050214/lindorff
the man coasting toward confirmation as Secretary of Homeland Security effectively prevented early exposure of the Bush/Rumsfeld/Gonzales policy of torture, which we now know began in Afghanistan and later "migrated" to Guantánamo and eventually to Iraq

I'm pretty outraged by the faux news conference myself... but Chertoff shouldn't be swooning..

[MichiganVote]

3. No this is not the dumbest thing FEMA has done.The dumbest thing was Katrina. Worthless agency.

[NanceGreggs]

4. In other words ...

"We got caught."

[EFerrari]

5. Nice translation, Nance!

lol

[devilgrrl]

9. Tee hee hee...

You betcha! :evilgrin:

[Window]

11. Exactly!

He probably set it up.


:rofl:


Peace:thumbsup:

[chelsea0011]

6. And it took him a couple of days to comment? Because he knew?

And he won't comment on firings because why? He is playing the waiting game. Will our liberal media run with this story? No, they won't.

[monmouth]

7. I checked out the freeper site and not one word, not one, regarding this...

[malaise]

8. Puke

If it wasn't exposed he would not have said a word. Has Admiral 'betrayus' Johnson been fired yet?

[11 Bravo]

10. Heckuva job, Skeletor.

[Habibi]

12. What unmitigated crapola

If he were really outraged, heads would be rolling now.

[Mz Pip]

13. The only people who will be fired

are the ones who either leaked the details or were so sloppy in the execution of it that it became public knowledge.

That was the screw up. Not acting the parts well enough.

Mz Pip
:dem: