A government agency responsible for Aviation Security caught lying? Say it isn't so! Eric Longabardi of ABC's The Blotter, just alerted me to an exclusive segment that will air on ABC World New Tonight.

In "FAA Tapes Reveal Drama of Obama Jet Incident," ABC reports how official FAA audio tape contradicts the Agency's original statement that there was "no emergency" on board Senator Barack Obama's campaign plane last month.

At the time, an FAA spokesperson said the pilot did not declare an emergency and the airline owner, Midwest Airlines, said safety "was never an issue."

The tapes, to be broadcast tonight on ABC News' World News with Charles Gibson, show otherwise.

Just 41 seconds after discovering he no longer had full control of the plane's up and down movements, the pilot told an FAA air traffic controller "at this time we would like to declare an emergency and also have CFR [crash equipment] standing by in St. Louis."

An FAA spokesperson acknowledged today that its statements at the time of "no emergency" were wrong, based, the spokesperson said, on erroneous reports from FAA air traffic managers. 

Blame the messengers.  

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