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PostSubject: I have to ask "when is enough going to be enough   I have to ask "when is enough going to be enough EmptyWed Nov 07, 2007 8:39 am

Monday, October 29th, 2007


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On Tuesday, FEMA staged a fake press conference with agency staffers posing as news reporters. One FEMA staffer who pretended to be a journalist has since been promoted to become head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. [includes rush transcript]
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The Department of Homeland Security acknowledged Friday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, had staged a fake press conference Tuesday with agency staffers posing as news reporters. Their acknowledgement, as well as an apology from FEMA officials, followed a Washington Post report that exposed the staged event. FEMA had only given reporters 15 minutes notice for Tuesday's press conference. A toll-free telephone line allowed reporters to listen to the proceedings, but not to pose any questions.
This is an excerpt of the faux press conference where FEMA staff asked their boss Harvey Johnson, the FEMA Deputy Administrator, scripted and friendly questions.

FEMA "Press Conference"
Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff sharply rebuked FEMA on Saturday and called the staged news briefing "one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen." White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino also addressed questions about this at her news briefing on Friday.
White House press briefing
Diane Farsetta is a senior researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy. She coordinates the Center's "No Fake News" campaign. She joins me now on the phone from Madison, Wisconsin.
Diane Farsetta, senior researcher at the Madison, Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy. She coordinates the center's "No Fake News" campaign.

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AMY GOODMAN: The Department of Homeland Security acknowledged Friday the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, had staged a fake news conference Tuesday with agency staffers posing as news reporters. Their acknowledgement, as well as an apology from FEMA officials, followed a Washington Post report that exposed the staged event. FEMA had only given reporters fifteen minutes notice for Tuesday's news conference. A toll-free telephone line allowed reporters to listen to the proceedings, but not to pose any questions. The news conference was carried by MSNBC and Fox.

This is an excerpt of the fake news conference, where the FEMA staff asked their boss Harvey Johnson, the FEMA deputy administrator, well, friendly questions.

FEMA STAFFER: Are you happy with FEMA’s response so far?

HARVEY JOHNSON: I’m very happy with FEMA’s response so far. If you look at where FEMA has come over the last couple years, to see this one-hour VTC with the region in place and aggressively linked in with the state, a regional administrator who’s at the state EOC with the state Office of Emergency Services, linked up there for the last couple days to make sure that we understand the situation and can bring the right support to the state. This is a FEMA and a federal government that’s leaning forward, not waiting to react. And you have to be pretty pleased to see that.

Listen to the mayor of San Diego and ask him what he thinks about FEMA’s performance, and he’ll tell you that he couldn’t be more pleased with the support he’s been provided by the federal government, coordinated by FEMA. And ask Governor Schwarzenegger what he thinks about FEMA’s performance, he’ll tell you the same thing, that he couldn’t be more pleased at how FEMA recognizes the role the federal government is facilitating in that effort to the benefit of the state and the communities and those disaster victims in California. So you have to be really proud at the way our FEMA team has pulled together, looking beyond our own bounds of FEMA to bring the federal partners together.

MODERATOR: Last question?

FEMA STAFFER: What lessons learned from Katrina have been applied?

HARVEY JOHNSON: And lessons learned from Katrina, it’s like, is there day and is there night? And if you take a look at Katrina, where there really was no leaning forward, really, there really was not a fabric of federal partners, where there wasn’t good smooth communications between the governor and the administrator of FEMA, the governor and the President, to see all the federal partners linked together, pre-scripting mission assignments, having contracts in place, following a game plan, we didn’t do any of those kind of things in Katrina. And what you're seeing now is a very smoothly, very efficiently performing team.

You are seeing some fits and starts, as you would expect in a disaster. It’s not storybook perfect, but you’re seeing people react and to see in a gap and to fill it right away and not wait to be told to fill it. And you’re seeing a gap that exists for moments, not for days or a week. And so, I think what you’re really seeing here is the benefit of experience, the benefit of good leadership, and the benefit of good partnership, none of which were present in Katrina. So I think as a nation, people should sit up and take notice that you have the worst wildfire season in history in California, and look at how well the state and the local governments are performing, look at how well we’re working together between state and federal partners. It’s a good thing to see, and it should be reassuring to the American public that if a disaster does strike our country, whether it’s California or a hurricane on the Gulf Coast, that we’ll do the same thing, we’ll pull together to support state and locals’ common objectives by teamwork and partnership.

AMY GOODMAN: FEMA deputy administrator Harvey Johnson being questioned by -- well, the country thought they were reporters, but they were FEMA staffers posing as reporters. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff sharply rebuked FEMA Saturday and called the staged news briefing "one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen." White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino also addressed questions about this at her news briefing Friday.

REPORTER: On Tuesday, FEMA’s deputy administrator held what was called a news briefing to talk about the California wildfires. And from what we understand, the questions were posed not by reporters, but by staffers, and that distinction was not made known. Is that appropriate?

DANA PERINO: It is not. It is not a practice that we would employ here at the White House or that we -- we certainly don't condone it. We didn't know about it beforehand. FEMA has issued an apology, saying that they had an error in judgment when they were attempting to try to get out a lot of information to reporters, who were asking for answers to a variety of questions in regards to the wildfires in California. It's not something I would have condoned, and they, I'm sure, will not do it again.

REPORTER: Who is responsible?

DANA PERINO: FEMA is responsible, and they have taken that -- they have accepted that responsibility, and they issued an apology today.

REPORTER: But isn't -- a follow-up on that. Isn't there a normal morning call with all the press secretaries of all the agencies here, and whether somebody is having a press briefing or not is discussed?

DANA PERINO: We have a variety of ways that we talk to the -- communicate to the communicators in the agencies. FEMA is not on that daily call, no, and I don't know if the DHS -- the head of DHS communications knew about it either. But FEMA has apologized for the error in judgment.

REPORTER: Dana, why didn't this raise alarm bells, in terms of credibility, with anyone there?

DANA PERINO: You'll have to ask them. They have admitted that they had an error in judgment. I would agree with that. They've issued an apology. And, you know, you'll have to ask them about why they decided to do that.

REPORTER: But isn't the President concerned, at a time when he is traveling to the area to talk about a very significant natural disaster -- there have been issues about FEMA in the past, trying to make a distinction about progress made, and for them to effectively pretend to hold a news conference, doesn't the President have concerns about that?

DANA PERINO: I just said that the White House did not know about it beforehand, and the White House condones it. And they have apologized for it. They had an error in judgment. They have admitted that. And I think that what they were -- I don't think that there was any mal-intent. I think that they were trying to provide information to the public through the press, because there were so many questions pouring in. It was just a bad way to handle it, and they know that.

REPORTER: Will anybody be reprimanded?

DANA PERINO: You'll have to ask FEMA.

AMY GOODMAN: White House press person, Dana Perino, being questioned by real reporters at the White House, or at least they play them on TV. This is Diane Farsetta, senior researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy. She coordinates the Center's "No Fake News" campaign, joining us now by phone from Madison, Wisconsin.

Welcome to Democracy Now!, Diane. Your response to this news conference?

DIANE FARSETTA: Well, I think it has to be seen as an attempt at deliberate deception by the Bush administration and one in a long string of cases where we’ve seen this type of behavior, this really contempt for the role of a free press in a democracy. It happened almost two years to the day that there was a quote-unquote “teleconference” with the troops in Iraq that President Bush held, where it turned out that they had been prepped beforehand by the Pentagon's lead PR person, Allison Barber. So we’ve seen this time and time again. There’s Armstrong Williams. There’s Jeff Gannon. Unfortunately, the Bush administration doesn’t seem to really understand that there needs to be independent reporters.

AMY GOODMAN: Explain again who Jeff Gannon is, for those with short memory.

DIANE FARSETTA: Sure. He is a person who was receiving daily passes to White House briefings. He was associated with the Republican Party, really had no real press credentials, but was in the briefing room at the White House asking softball questions at hard times during press conferences.

AMY GOODMAN: What more do you know about this news conference? Harvey Johnson, the deputy administrator of FEMA, they call a news conference, give reporters fifteen minutes to get there in Southern California. Of course, they can’t get there, so they're told to call into a number, and they're told they can only listen, they cannot participate. So they’re watching it on MSNBC, or they’re just listening on the phone, or they’re watching it on Fox, which is carrying it live. And explain who the -- well, the fake reporters were.

DIANE FARSETTA: Right. Well, there were four staff people with FEMA who all had roles in dealing with the media. So I think it’s important to point out that these are not people who are not used to these type of situations. These are people who work at a federal agency that deals with emergency situations, and they work specifically with press. One of them, John Philbin, who’s -- or who was, until last week, FEMA’s director of external affairs, he had a quarter-century career so far working in government with media, specifically working on crisis communication -- marketing communications, brand management are his areas of expertise, and I think that’s what we really saw was brand management. They couldn’t have known -- or they couldn’t not have known that this would reflect very poorly on FEMA if the word got out. And they basically seem to have been assuming that the word would not get out about what they were doing.

AMY GOODMAN: What’s astounding is where Philbin is now going.

DIANE FARSETTA: Right.

AMY GOODMAN: He was hardly punished.

DIANE FARSETTA: Right, exactly. He seems to have gotten a promotion to head public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. So, one can only wonder what he’ll be doing in his new position.

AMY GOODMAN: Have any of the others gotten promotions after faking reporters -- being reporters?

DIANE FARSETTA: Not in this case so far. It will be interesting -- I mean, you had aired some of, you know, the White House spokesperson, and the Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff did come out and condemn. I think, you know, that’s what you have to do in these cases when you get caught, is come out and condemn. But it will be interesting to see is anyone actually held accountable for this.

AMY GOODMAN: Diane Farsetta, very briefly, before we go to break, any updates on your whole campaign around exposing networks, local news stations that use video news releases, VNRs, either government VNRs or corporate VNRs?

DIANE FARSETTA: Right. We did have a very exciting breakthrough. The Federal Communications Commission proposed five fines against Comcast Corporation for one of their cable channels, CN8, having aired five VNRs without disclosure. It’s far from a done deal --

AMY GOODMAN: And explain what those VNRs are.

DIANE FARSETTA: Sure. They are -- they’re sponsored PR videos. They were promoting things like Wheaties brand cereal, and they were being aired as news without any disclosure. So, fines have been proposed. Comcast is appealing. And there’s more than 110 other TV stations that we hope the FCC will be announcing fines against.

AMY GOODMAN: Diane Farsetta, I want to thank you for being with us, senior researcher at the Madison, Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy. She leads their "No Fake News" campaign.

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Two this is the norm for this administration. Never have we experienced so much propaganda coming from an administration. This brings to mind the "Jeff Gannon/ James Guckert" incident. This is sordid, and why this was swept under the rug I will never know. Even the major news outlets picked up on it, but as fast as it was reported it just as fast disappeared. It was revealed that Gannon's only prior experience was as a male escort who had unfettered access to the White House when there were no press briefings. It gets worse because a woman who I believe lives in Nebraska claims Gannon is her son who was kidnapped while on his paper route, and then used as a child sex slave for a powerful and elitist pedophile ring. This was never proven, but an investigator on that case had some very incriminating files backing her claims. You can click on the link and they have a log at the end of the article indicating the days Gannon was at the White House with no briefings scheduled.


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Secret Service records raise new questions about discredited conservative reporter

By John Byrne| RAW STORY Editor


Updated: Day discovered with two check-ins but no check outs; Other events found on some days without press briefings

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In what is unlikely to stem the controversy surrounding disgraced White House correspondent James Guckert, the Secret Service has furnished logs of the writer’s access to the White House after requests by two Democratic congressmembers.

The documents, obtained by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) through a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal Guckert had remarkable access to the White House. Though he wrote under the name Jeff Gannon, the records show that he applied with his real name.

Gannon’s ready access to President Bush and his work for a news agency that frequently plagiarized content from other reporters and tailored it to serve a conservative message may raise new questions about the White House’s attempts to seed favorable news coverage. Democrats have sought to paint Guckert in the context of other efforts by the Administration to “plant” positive spin by paying for video news releases and columnists to espouse their views.

Guckert made more than 200 appearances at the White House during his two-year tenure with the fledging conservative websites GOPUSA and Talon News, attending 155 of 196 White House press briefings. He had little to no previous journalism experience, previously worked as a male escort, and was refused a congressional press pass.

Perhaps more notable than the frequency of his attendance, however, is several distinct anomalies about his visits.

Guckert made more than two dozen excursions to the White House when there were no scheduled briefings. On many of these days, the Press Office held press gaggles aboard Air Force One—which raises questions about what Guckert was doing at the White House. On other days, the president held photo opportunities.

On at least fourteen occasions, Secret Service records show either the entry or exit time missing. Generally, the existing entry or exit times correlate with press conferences; on most of these days, the records show that Guckert checked in but was never processed out.

In March, 2003, Guckert left the White House twice on days he had never checked in with the Secret Service. Over the next 22 months, Guckert failed to check out with the Service on fourteen days. On several of these visits, Guckert either entered or exited by a different entry/exit point than his usual one. On one of these days, no briefing was held; on another, he checked in twice but failed to check out.

“I’d be worried if I was the White House and I knew that a reporter with a day pass never left,” one White House reporter told RAW STORY. “I’d wonder, where is he hiding? It seems like a security risk.”

Others who have covered the White House say not checking in or out with the Secret Service is unusual, especially in the wake of Sept. 11. The Secret Service declined to comment.

“We responded to the FOIA request and can provide no further information,” Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry said.

Guckert declined to comment, directing all questions to the Service.

The records furnished by the Service are unlikely to finally answer who approved Gannon’s “temporary” day passes into the presidential residence. The Service keeps a record of who approved passes only for the last sixty days; previous records are kept by the White House.

Since December 2004, all but one of Gannon’s forty-eight temporary appointments were requested by Lois Cassano, a White House Press Office media assistant. One additional request was made by Peter Watkins, a press assistant who now works as deputy press secretary to First Lady Laura Bush.

Guckert sometimes stayed for an extended period of time before and after press conferences, particularly early in his tenure. This was especially common during his first few months, when he might be in the White House for as long as six hours.

A White House reporter dismissed this as insignificant, noting that sometimes reporters stay between events.

“You could probably find people who stayed there for nine hours,” the reporter said.

Occasionally, the former Talon News reporter visited the White House twice on the same day. This was also most common in the early months.

The Secret Service furnished the records after a Freedom of Information Act request from Reps. John Conyers (D-MI) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY).

Guckert drew fire from liberals after asking a question of President Bush earlier this year in which he misquoted the Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Investigative bloggers at Daily Kos and AmericaBlog.org discovered that Guckert owned male escort sites, and was himself a male prostitute.

The now-blogger has also been accused of lifting copy from press releases and other reporters.

A Massachusetts editor and reporter have accused Guckert of plagiarism, which RAW STORY reported in March. The watchdog Media Matters for America has also found that many of Guckert’s stories lifted directly from White House press releases.

Talon News, which shut down after the fracas over Gannon erupted, was self-avowedly Republican. Bobby Eberle, the site's founder, told the Washington Post, "We make no bones about it: It's a partisan site."

In a February letter to President Bush, several Senate Democrats raised concern about Gannon in connection with what they believe is an attempt to “buy” coverage.

“The Gannon/Guckert affair is disturbing because of what we have recently learned about apparent efforts by some in your Administration to try to "buy" favorable news coverage,” the Democrats wrote. “These other efforts include paying news personalities … large sums of money to promote your Administration's education and marriage initiatives, and using taxpayer dollars to produce video news releases promoting the new prescription drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries and other policies the Administration regards as accomplishments.”

The Administration has defended such efforts, and has sought to downplay their significance.

READ THE DOCUMENTS

The first set of times for each date is Guckert's login and logout. The second set is the briefing time. Research conducted by Raw Story researcher Muriel Kane. No briefing does not necessarily mean no briefing took place, only that none was scheduled by the White House press office. We have tried to make note of other briefings held on the dates there was no White House press briefing.

*ANALYSIS UPDATED -- 12:24 A.M. Dates without briefings reduced to thirty.................

Article originally published Apr. 24, 2005.

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/secret_service_gannon_424.htm
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