UPDATE! 5/6
The White House will release one photo. Michelle Malkin:
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs stated at today’s press briefing that the Obama administration has reversed itself and will release “a photo” of the Scare Force One flyover.
Still does not satisfy even a minimum level of public disclosure. And no way in hell I’m withdrawing my FOIA requests.
Washington Times
What about those pictures of Air Force One and the Statue of Liberty during the “Terror in New York?” It looks like they will NOT be released.
PHANTOM AIR FARCE PICTURES – The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.
“We have no plans to release them,” an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.
The sole purpose of the secret photo-op, which sent thousands of New Yorkers running for cover, was to take new publicity shots of the presidential jet over the city.
“The photos . . . are classified — that’s ridiculous,” Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., said.
The photos have not technically been “classified,” a White House aide said, but they are being kept from public view.
New Yorkers said they could not understand how a president who shares intimate snapshots from the White House could justify keeping these secret.
“So we’re not gonna see the fruits of this cruel joke?” said Frank Antonelli, 39, one of the Wall Street traders spooked by last week’s flyover.
“I’m not surprised. Obama . . . wouldn’t further all the bad publicity by putting out those pictures.”
I don’t want to sound like a broken record here, but can you imagine if George Bush was in the White House when the “Terror” happened? Impeachment happy Democrats would be howling, the press would have gone mad, and the blogosphere from the left would have whipped themselves into a frenzied pitch with conspiracy theories exploding everywhere.
And then not to release the pictures? Where is the ACLU? Isn’t this the hint of cover up? The tax payers paid for them – they deserve copies.
Mr. President – if you can endanger our nation’s security by releasing top secret CIA memos, you can release the pictures! But let’s make a deal: feel free to keep them secret – just pay the bill.
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It sickened me when I heard about this. Truly. Whose brilliant idea WAS this? “Oh. I know. Let’s send a big, giant plane to fly around really low over a city that was TERRORIZED on September 11, 2001 instead of just hiring an over-paid graphic designer to spend 20 minutes creating it on a computer.” Ridiculous and unacceptable. As for “if George Bush were in office”, this never would have happened if George Bush were in office. He’s not stupid. HE held us together on September 12, 2001 and all the days that followed.
Excellent point Amy – George Bush would not have done such a stupid thing.
Well unlike just about about every single thing the modern left is about at least this money will not go to special interests, unions or those that will not take personal responsibility for their lives. It also will not be spent to take away freedom or fund baby killing worldwide. So this is still money well spent. Well done morons.
Hey Steve!
Hopefully we will get some pictures out of the deal.
One picture for 400k? Makes the $200 light bulb sound like a great investment. Especially since someone could have made the whole thing from elements in Photoshop in 30 minutes or less.
I’ve said this before. This so-called photo shoot was a reconnasaince flight gathering information for when he declares martial law on the people. Watch the skies in all the cities my friends. We might be surprised at what we will see.
SueG52
The ACLU never takes the side of right and they couldn’t care less if there’s no money involved for them.
SueG52
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