I've got a question for FEMA

The Washington Post is reporting that the press conference held by Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy administrator of FEMA, was completely rigged. The reporters at the press conference lobbed softball question after softball question at Johnson. If this seems a little fishy to you, considering the press's distrust of FEMA, you're right. It turns out that the "reporters" were FEMA's director of external affairs, deputy directors of external affairs and public affairs, and possibly a press aide. (Apparently the Washington Post isn't so sure on that one)

FEMA denied all of this though, right? Not at all. One of the fake reporters had the following to say: (From the article)

But the staff did not make up the questions, he said, and Johnson did not know what was going to be asked. "We pulled questions from those we had been getting from reporters earlier in the day." Despite the very short notice, "we were expecting the press to come," he said, but they didn't. So the staff played reporters for what on TV looked just like the real thing. "If the worst thing that happens to me in this disaster is that we had staff in the chairs to ask questions that reporters had been asking all day, Widomski said, "trust me, I'll be happy."