FEMA PR Chief loses his job after fake news conference  
Monday, October 29th, 2007

John P. "Pat" Philbin, the man who oversaw public affairs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when the fake news conference was held last week has lost his new job.  He will no longer be taking over as head of public relations for the director of national intelligence.

He's the External Affairs Director and was slotted to become director of public affairs for National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell today.  But it's a no-go.  It has not been released yet whether or not he has resigned or was fired from the new position.

Mike McConnell's office issued the following statement confirming this today:

"We do not normally comment on personnel matters.  However, we can confirm that Mr. Philbin is not, nor is he scheduled to be, the director of public affairs for the office of the director of national intelligence."

The Director of FEMA, David Paulison, is claiming that Philbin sent him an e-mail taking full responsibility for last week's staged news conference.

Pat Philbin's bio page is suddenly now missing from FEMA's website, and he's missing from the list of FEMA leaders completely.

Something smells fishy.

When things like this happen, don't you just assume that they're making one person the scapegoat, like CBS did to Dan Rather?  When there's a phony news conference by the FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, we expect more than one head to roll!  Something is seriously messed up here.

I highly doubt that the fake press thing was all the brainchild of one man, Pat Philbin.  I demand an independent investigation!

   

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