Couldn't find any reference in mainstream news by searching Google News. But, found a couple of hits through Google's blog search.

That's on a par with this, which I saw frequently reported in the days following Katrina:

"Americans don't sleep in tents." --Unnamed FEMA official, responding to the head of the Hurricane Center of Louisiana State University who was trying to urge FEMA to set up tent cities.

There must be some unidentified law of nature that causes bureaucrats to lose half their IQ points upon assuming office.
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"Things that have never happened before happen all the time." — Scott Sagan, The Limits of Safety