You guys remember that unannounced fly-over New York City? You know, the one the Obama Administration decided to perform so they could update their publicity photos (oh, the irony) based on the Air Force One flying around national landmarks? Yeah, the one that caused public on the ground to fear the worst and run for their lives fearing another 9/11 attack.
Turns out, hey, we won’t even be seeing the photos. Obama’s administration (possibly Obama himself) has ordered that the “photos taken” to not be released to public view.
It’s kind of funny. This president has no problem revealing photos of the “abuse” of known terrorists, closing down Gitmo bay and making previous presidents’ dirty laundry be known… but what about his own? Not a shot.
So not only did they not tell anyone (not even the mayor!), they spent almost $329,000 on this operation. That’s OUR tax money, on OUR plane, flying over OUR city. Does anyone else find something fishy about this? A supposed super secret operation to get new press pictures of the president’s plane over national landmarks, but the pictures aren’t being revealed. Also, the plane was being escorted by a fighter jet… since when are fighter jets mounted with high-resolution, high-quality cameras? Something really fishy. By all means, I am NOT a conspiracy theorist, at all.. but stuff isn’t adding up here.
I’ve sent in a Freedom of Information Act to obtain more information. These photos are not “classified, but being kept from public view.” Well, since they aren’t classified, I’m invoking the FoIA. Here is my request:
“Please disclose any documents relating to the Air Force One “landmark fly-over photo-op” on the day April 27, 2009, including but not limited to, photographs (color) taken, flight manifest, fighter escort aircraft camera specifications, operational directives and all correspondence with the FAA & Flight Traffic Control before and during this operation in regards to all operational notification, planning and commission.”
It’s short and sweet, but to the point. We’ll see how much executive cooperation I receive.
So much for the transparency we were promised.
Thanks to Insignifcant Thoughts and New York Post
It’s so funny how we’ve continuously gotten exactly the opposite of what we were promised in the run up to his coronation, er, election, and yet the outrage-o-meter is still down at the bottom.
If George Bush crapped and didn’t wash his hands it was a national media outrage but BO seems to get a pass on everything. I don’t understand it.