Sean Smith gets new gig at Homeland Security

by: Scarce

Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 09:03:47 AM EST

Joe Lieberman's 2006 primary campaign manager, Sean Smith, who accused Ned Lamont of hacking their website the day of the Connecticut primary in 2006, has been selected to be the new Administration's spokesperson at the Department of Homeland Security.

If there's any federal department that needs truth-talking more than DoJ, it's likely DHS. Its serial errors throughout the Bush Administration are an embarrassment: color-coded politically motivated terror alerts; the utter failure to prepare for and respond to the devastation of the Gulf Coast by Katrina; its continued lunacy about airline passengers, liquids and shoe-removal; its managers' racial insensitivity; its politically timed and motivated leak about the Democratic presidential candidate's far-flung family; Secretary Michael Chertoff using undocumented workers to clean his own home; cruel immigration raids across the country targetted at employees but not employers.

....via Politico:

- Sean Smith, Obama's Pennsylvania communications director for the general-election campaign and campaign manager on Sen. Joseph Lieberman's 2006 reelection, will be the chief communicator at Homeland Security.

Howard Wolfson is also mentioned at State.

So whomever thought this was a good idea, he'll now be serving under Janet Napolitano and presumably have some contact with Joe Lieberman. How charming.

Sean Smith and the complete bullshit "hacking" story of 2006.