Sunday, March 19, 2006

Usually it's the reporters who seem to act like Bush employees

posted by The Vidiot @ 8:22 PM Permalink

Advance Workers for Bush Impersonated Reporters

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.
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"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.' "
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Tom Mazur, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said he did not know who the men were but they were not Secret Service officials.
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The men eventually revealed their identities and displayed blue lapel pins bearing the presidential seal.
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Ken Lisaius, a White House spokesman, said the employees were out of bounds.

"This incident has been brought to our attention, and this is clearly not appropriate, nor is it part of our standard operating procedures," he said. "The individuals involved will be verbally reprimanded."
Verbally reprimanded? FREAKIN' REPRIMANDED!? It's a federal crime to impersonate SS agents! And it isn't the first, second or even the third time this misAdministration has played this trick.

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