Posted on 04/29/2009 9:06:26 AM PDT by Nachum
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
An F-16 fighter jet trails a larger military aircraft over Lower Manhattan Monday, April 27, 2009, conducting a photo shoot that panicked thousands of New Yorkers who believed the city was in jeopardy for another terrorist attack.
A furious President Barack Obama ordered an internal review of Monday's low-flying photo op over the Statue of Liberty.
CBS 2 HD has discovered the feds will have plenty to question.
Federal officials knew that sending two fighter jets and a 747 from the presidential fleet to buzz ground zero and Lady Liberty might set off nightmarish fears of a 9/11 replay, but they still ordered the photo-op kept secret from the public
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Just about everyone knows that DC is a restricted fly over area.
From the info I got they photo op was to be over the Washington Monument.
No way they get that clearance without the highest authority.
I especially like that the poster specified, The plane made 3 counterclockwise circles total and hasn't been back since. This actually made me less worried because if it were a real emergency or something was wrong, more fighters would have arrived by then and they would not have let the plane circle that low and that close to the city three times. Anyway, I have no idea why they would do that, but it was either AF1 or a 747 painted to look like it. I looked for planes or helicopters that could have been filming and didn't see any, though I see someone else has posted that it was a photo shoot.
RE my post 48 above — I need to correct, the poster was NOT a New Yorker, but I think was in New Jersey. My goof!
Last story:
Now that looks like something Lucas would want to include at the end of his movie.
I have just put this up on my site. Excellent.
Memo discussion here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2241304/posts
Thanks.
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