U.S. Customs' hurricane-relief Blackhawks pulling press duty

[libertypirate]

Found while searching google news

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/9/1/195752/4860

The crews for three U.S. Customs Blackhawk helicopters stationed at Crestview Airport in Florida are "livid" because they have not been directed to provide full-time support for the ongoing hurricane-relief effort in the nation's Gulf Coast region, according to Mark Conrad, a former regional Internal Affairs supervisor for U.S. Customs.

Conrad says instead of helping people left desperate in the wake of Katrina's wrath, the Blackhawk's actually were slated to transport a CNN news crew to take video shots of those people.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection leadership in Miami is behind the press-play strategy, Conrad says.

"They have three Blackhawk helicopters and crew just sitting there doing nothing, just so they can look good for CNN. The crew is livid," Conrad says. "They made one trip earlier and flew over Biloxi, (Mississippi) where there are dead bodies everywhere. Those are highly trained crews and Blackhawk helicopters can carry a lot of food and water. They could be doing something."

[Spinzonner]

1. It sounds like the old Soviet system

where a party commisar was part of very agency, military unit, bureaucracy to ensure that the party line was followed and the party prestige was promoted.

[woodsprite]

2. Sounds like they'll be pulling the media soon. n/t