So now White House staff are posing as Fox News and Secret Service?

[underpants]

Sorry if this was posted over the weekend. I just read it in Froomkin's WaPo article/
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/14119840.htm



Who were those guys?Agents posed as journalists before visit

Recounting the pre-visit days for WLOX and the Sun Herald, Jerry Akins, who received Bush, mentioned that on the Friday before Bush arrived, two men approached him identifying themselves as members of the media.

He said the men told him they were with Fox News out of Houston, Texas, and were on a "scouting mission" for a story on new construction. They took pictures inside Akins' house, which is under construction and looked up and down the road in the neighborhood.



But after the president left Akins' home, the two men again approached Akins and let him know they were not media after all, but were with the governmental entourage.

But a spokesman for Secret Service, under Homeland Security, said posing as a journalist is not something the agents typically do. He did suggest they might have been with the White House staff or a branch of the military, based on the description of the pins.


Akins said he saw no problem with what happened and the government agents laughed about their fooling him. In the long run, he said, he'd rather have had a visit from the president than be on a segment of Fox News, anyway.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Posing as a Fox "Journalist?" You'd stick out like a sore thumb.

[IsItJustMe]

2. I pretty much believe they are one-in-the-same.

[sutz12]

3. All the Faux 'Journalists' are white house staff.... nt

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Amazing. That used to be absolutely against federal

rules.

Undercover agents NEVER posed as journalists.

Something else 9.11 changed, I guess.

[Trevelyan]

5. This is weird. I'll have to look up Froomkin's article. FireDoglake

loves him and I've been meaning to visit his columns.

Was he the one with the Early Warnings online WaPo articles. The one about the mercenaries and Operation Granite at the large White House protest where the poison gas, I think it was Tulermia..., was released to "discourage" Washington DC protests. It seemed Operation Granite did their job.

:argh: :nuke:

[leveymg]

11. No, that was William Arkin, another WP columnist.

He was the first to report on Granite Shadow. The tuleremia reports came a few days later - apparently sensors were set off by traces of something (perhaps part of the exercise), but nobody got sick.

[kenny blankenship]

6. They're all one big Nazi family

so why not?

[Virginia Dare]

7. I read the article in the WAPO and I have to say...

this is one of the most bizarre things I have read in a while. The Secret Service spokesman appeared to deny that they were S.S. agents. So WHO THE HELL WERE THEY AND WHAT WERE THEY UP TO???? Spying on private citizens? Posing as journalists?



This is the new Gestapo at work I guess.

:wtf:

[underpants]

9. I agree this is really weird

if this man knew that Bush was coming why would they need to make up a story?

Maybe they were ....you know....... THEM

[Neil Lisst]

8. It's easy to confuse them since their jobs are the same -

Protect the President at all costs!!

[sdfernando]

10. Why not?

After all, the Fox journalist are all posing as journalists anyway.