Only the boss gets to lie
Hopefully, this is the last time I’ll have to write about John “Pat” Philbin, the FEMA official who, after helping fake a FEMA press conference, appeared on the verge of promotion to head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Yesterday morning, Philbin’s dishonest rise [...]

Failing upward, a core Bush value
Right on the heels of the Bush administration making disapproving noises about FEMA’s phony press conference comes news that one of the officials responsible for it has, instead of being fired, gotten a new job– head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. So congratulations [...]