Who were these guys? (Secret Service posing as FOX Reporters)

[Canuckistanian]

Who were those guys?
Agents posed as journalists before visit
By KAREN NELSON
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There was a whirlwind of activity in the days prior to President Bush's arrival at a home on the beach in Gautier last week, with government officials and Secret Service scouting a location and checking the neighborhood where Bush would stop.

The reason for all the fuss was kept a secret even from the family that received Bush. They didn't know it was prelude to a presidential visit until the day Bush arrived.

But one part of the preparation for the President's arrival involved two government agents posing as journalists.

Recounting the pre-visit days for WLOX and the Sun Herald, Jerry Akins, who received Bush, mentioned that on the Friday before Bush arrived, two men approached him identifying themselves as members of the media.

He said the men told him they were with Fox News out of Houston, Texas, and were on a "scouting mission" for a story on new construction. They took pictures inside Akins' house, which is under construction and looked up and down the road in the neighborhood.

Akins said he didn't think anything more about them partly because visits from strangers increased exponentially as government agents and Secret Service arrived that Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday before the March 8 visit.

But after the president left Akins' home, the two men again approached Akins and let him know they were not media after all, but were with the governmental entourage.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/14119840.htm

(Sorry if this has been posted before.)

[Glorfindel]

1. Well, they are "Secret Service," right?

Naturally they're going to lie about who they are. Otherwise, they wouldn't be secret. Their mistake was in admitting their deception. Ideally, they'd be invisible. To tell the truth, considering the current state of the ass-kissing media, I'd rather entertain undercover cops than idiot reporters any day.

:rofl: :rofl:

[CottonBear]

2. I would be so pissed if this happened to me. I'd refuse to let Chimpy in.

Could you refuse a visit? Would they make you let Chimpy have a photo-op with you and your storm damaged home? Do they only scout out white Republicans? Enquiring minds want to know.

edit: Why did the Secret Service reveal their deception? They didn't have to?

[robbedvoter]

3. Maybe they didn't lie at all. They could be both - why not?

It's not like there's any conflict there, is it?

[Canuckistanian]

4. Good point

There were CIA officers in CNN once.

[BlueManDude]

5. Fox News is the propaganda arm of the Secret Service n/t