UPDATE: it appears justice was served, but in this administration in my opinion this guy didn’t just make this decision on his own.
”I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I’ve seen since I’ve been in government,” Michael Chertoff said.”I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again and there will be appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgment,” he added.Fake FEMA news conference director gets promotion
Philbin is slated to become Director of Public Affairs for the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell.
At least nobody got stuck on stupid.
(Philbin’s not getting his promotion, BTW, following this brouhaha.)