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FEMA apologizes for faking news conference
October 27, 2007 News

from Randall Mikkelsen, for Reuters

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. government’s main disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California’s wildfires that no news organizations attended.

FEMA press employees posed the questions for Johnson that included: “Are you happy with FEMA’s response so far?”

According to Friday’s Post account, which Walker confirmed, Johnson replied that he was “very happy with FEMA’s response so far.”

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