Ooops. He got caught.

Update, October 29: The jerk won't be going to work for the DNI after all. Whew!

According to the Washington Post, John Philbin recognizes the error of his ways in setting up a FEMA "press conference" where the role of the press was played by FEMA staffers.

Thus:

It was absolutely a bad decision. I regret it happened. Certainly . . . I should have stopped it," said John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's director of external affairs.

Philbin further insults us and what's left of our brains by saying:

I hope readers understand we're working very hard to establish credibility and integrity, and I would hope this does not undermine it.

Got that? Credibility! Integrity!

As of Thursday, Philbin has left his FEMA job. So where is this duplicitous moron headed? To the assh heap of history, where he belongs? In this administration -- not bloody likely! No, dear friends, this is his reward:

He has been named as the new head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence...

It's breathtaking.