Advance Workers for Bush Impersonated Reporters

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/17/AR2006031702434.html?nav=rss_politics

Advance Workers for Bush Impersonated Reporters

By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 18, 2006

The White House said yesterday that it will discipline two government employees who masqueraded as journalists this month while scouting locations for a presidential visit to the Gulf Coast.

A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina said two men who later identified themselves as Secret Service agents pretended to be Fox News journalists when surveying their neighborhood in advance of a March 8 visit from President Bush.

The men arrived on March 3 at the site of the beachfront home that Jerry and Elaine Akins are rebuilding in Gautier, Miss., Elaine Akins said in a telephone interview yesterday.

"They didn't show any cards or anything," Akins said. "They just came up and said they were with the media, and then they said they were with Fox. They just talked to us and asked us about rebuilding our house. Then, after everything was over with, they approached us and they were laughing, and they said: 'You know, we really weren't with Fox. We're government, Secret Service men.' "

[niyad]

1. wonder if it's the same assholes who kicked people out of a bush

"townhouse meeting" in denver recently, pretending to be SS. they were never named or punished.

[TayTay]

2. Well, it is hard to tell the difference these days

Between reporters from Faux News and people working in the Bush government. They do all look alike to so many people.

[dajoki]

6. and preach the same bullshit n/t

[democracyindanger]

3. They were fake reporters, then they were fake Secret Service agents.

Just another episode of Republicans Break Law; Nothing Happens.

[StClone]

4. So we can pretend to be Secret Service Agents

And not see any consequence? Fat chance.

[Mind_your_head]

5. "Their gonna discipline (you're supposed to read: punish)

two government employees who masqueraded as journalists"....

who doesn't think that 'disiplining' in this * administration doesn't mean "giving them a medal"? of some sort.

In an earlier time, you would know the identities of these guys (and that concern of your 'name' being tarnished) was a big deterrant from people willing to do things like this....now, in this internet age, we don't know who these guys are????.....How ridiculous is that? If we don't know their names, than it can all just 'disappear' and there won't be any consequences for the perps to suffer. How 'convenient'.....how tragic for us all

[dajoki]

7. but they sure want to know our identities n/t