Fake Fema press conference, Who was the whistleblower?

Question

It's funny, I've seen many reports on this incident and none of them say who broke the story.

Answer 1

I don't think there was a whistle-blower. The press conference was on TV and I think reporters familiar with the FEMA staff recognized some of the questioners and were also suspicious because no hostile or off subject questions were asked as is usually the case with the real press. I think this is the article that broke the story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/AR2007102502488.html

Answer 2

It was said news reporters showed up to ask FEMA questions about the California fire and were then turned away 2 days later the story of them faking a press conference first appeared in the Washington Post so whoever worked for that organization was the whistleblower .

Answer 3

It replace into reported techniques reporters shown as much as ask FEMA questions with regard to the undertaking of the California fire and function been then grew to alter into away 2 days later the story of them faking a press convention first regarded interior the Washington publish so whoever worked for that corporation corporation replace into the whistleblower .

Answer 4

wonder if anyone will point out the Karl Rove Jeff Gannon allegations.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/opinion/lynch/main675050.shtml

"Some of the real reporters in the White House pressroom were apparently annoyed at Gannon's presence and his softball, partisan questions, but considered him only a minor irritant. One told me he thought of Gannon as a balance for the opinionated liberal questions of Hearst's Helen Thomas. But what Gannon was up to was not just writing opinion columns or using a different technique to get information. He was a player in Republican campaigns and his work in the South Dakota Senate race illustrates the role he played. It is also a classic example of how political operatives are using the brave new world of the Internet and the blogosphe"


People in (White) Glass houses and throwing stones ....?

Answer 5

Who knows, but it shows that there are some big problems in the Bush Administration.

I guess they think everyone is stupid enough to go for a fake news conference. If it worked, then Bush would probably switch to that style of news conference.

Answer 6

the Washington press corp is a exclusive club , they probably knew right away that none of them were there , after all they only had a 15 min warning to get to the white house to cover it to begin with .

Answer 7

I don't know, but it's nothing new. Between the White House planting fake news stories in papers and on TV, and Bush speaking only to hand-picked GOP approved audiences for televised "town-hall" meetings, this administration has been running on propaganda for years.

Answer 8

Probably an employee who thought it was a big fraud.
The scary thing is this has been what our government has been using to fool all of us Dem/Repub and our media is not doing its job

Answer 9

I dunno... but Fema is either having a lobotomy or is so arrogant to think that people would actually fall for that pile of crap..

Answer 10

its Bush's fault....