Posted on 04/29/2009 10:57:03 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
An Air Force officer who served in the Clinton White House and for two years carried the "nuclear football" briefcase of codes says it's almost certain that the "highest levels" of the Obama administration knew about and approved this week's stunt in which Air Force One buzzed New York City.
Retired Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson served in Clinton's White House from 1996 to 1998 and was responsible for the president's "emergency satchel," the black bag of nuclear codes that accompanies the president at all times.
He wrote "Reckless Disregard" and "Dereliction of Duty" after his retirement from the military.
During an interview on "The Andrea Shea King Show" last night, he said, "I can't imagine that anyone who works in the Air Force thought that was a good idea. I have worked in the White House and having worked for the Military Office, with the guys at Andrews Air Force Base and the ground crews, that (decision) had to come down from on high." Among the procedures with which he became familiar during his work with Clinton were those involving the preparation of the president's 747 jet for flight.
"It defies my belief that the White House staff did not know they were launching the 747 to go up and do this. So it had to come down from the White House. It wouldn't have been done on behalf of the folks at Andrews (Air Force Base). It would have been done at the direction of the White House," he said.
Patterson said the low-flying escapade over Manhattan clearly was not an oversight.
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You know he had to have known about it
YES.
The lying piece of rat filth approved this for his re-election video or some other piece of propaganda to promote himself.
It is noteworthy to remember that a SECOND fly-by in Democrat City was also planned, but has since been scrubbed due to the horrified reactions in New York.
ONLY A DAMN FOOL WOULD BELIEVE THAT OBAMA KNEW NOTHING REGARDING THESE TWO FLIGHT PLANS.
No Sh!t.
Over $300,000 for the photo shoot.
Hasn’t anyone in the tech savvy White House heard of Photoshop? It would have saved a heck of a lot of money.....
Roger Hedgecock reported that it is for a video of AF1 flying over national landmarks to be use by barry.
But the president was said to be furious. At what? The reaction of New Yorkers?
It's bullsh!t, and I don't believe any of Obama's damn lies!
Could Photoshop have shown the plane in motion over the landmarks?
Interesting comment.
If The One is shown to have lied there should be severe repercussions. Should be but won’t be.
And suppose someone had a heart attack and died?
Obama also didn’t know anything about Reverend Wright’s vitriol either. So, the President is either a clueless nitwit, or a blatant liar. Or both.
Has anything similar been done before?
Who were the passengers on the plane?
You know how many Cessnas it would take to run up a $1.8 trillion deficit? We gotta use the big iron if we are going make our number for the year.
Are they covering up the plane being taken for a joyride without permission? /tic
My feeling is that he must have INITIATED it. Because, why else would such an outrageous stunt have been performed? Who else could have done it?
At any rate, I just hope this story doesn’t die before we get to the bottom of it. What about that Senator? What’s his ( her? ) story? Bring out the waterboard!
He wants to be seen aerially cruising the airways the way Marion “Mayor Crackhead” Barry would prowl around DC in his limo at all hours. A halfwit mack daddy..
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