White House Not Releasing Fly Over NYC Photos (my title)

FOX News | 5/5/09

[CitizenM]

Just announced on FOX news:

"The White House has declined to release the photos taken of the backup of the AF1 plane that flew over NYC and past the Statue of Liberty for a photo op last month..."

No more details available on FOX's website.

Remember this:

Photo Flop

[Widdy]

Any more information on F-16’s red tail?
None of the F-16 pics I found on the D.C. A.N.G. site have red tails.

[Upstate NY Guy]

"It seems that message was conveyed to those in charge and yet the order was still given to make that strange flight. People were warned not to let the general public know about the flight. Why would they do that? Something else was going on that they don’t want anyone to know about. What was it?"

Good analysis and question.
Another scary part of this whole deal is the Air Force seems to be complicit.

[Liz]

FOIA? Oh please---Obama has already declared FOIA foes not apply to him........or his staff's actions. Read on.

THE COVERUPS BEGIN Freddie Mac records exempt from FOIA (Obama Admin Denies Request)
Sunlight Foundation | 03/26/2009 | Bill Allison
Posted 03/27/2009 by BuckeyeTexan

Bob Secter and Andrew Zajac of the Chicago Tribune report that, while researching what went at Freddie Mac during the period White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel served on the government sponsored enterprise’s board of directors, they were unable to get minutes of board meetings and other information: The Obama administration rejected a Tribune request under the Freedom of Information Act to review Freddie Mac board minutes and correspondence during Emanuel’s time as a director. The documents, obtained by Falcon for his investigation, were “commercial information” exempt from disclosure, according to a lawyer for the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Freddie Mac executives cooked the books, mismanaged the firm, and ultimately drove it into the ground, costing taxpayers billions of dollars. The “commercial information” exemption is reserved for private companies–Freddie Mac is by no means a private company anymore.

COME AGAIN? Obama said in the FOIA memo, “The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.” Obama added later that “In responding to requests under the FOIA, executive branch agencies (agencies) should act promptly and in a spirit of cooperation, recognizing that such agencies are servants of the public.”

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Rahm Emanuel was director when Freddie Mac board was tipped to fraudulent BONUS scheme

"On (Rahm) Emanuel's watch, the board was told by executives of a plan to use accounting tricks to mislead shareholders about outsize profits the government-chartered firm was then reaping from risky investments.

The goal was to push earnings onto the books in future years, ensuring that Freddie Mac would appear profitable on paper for years to come and helping maximize annual bonuses for company brass. The accounting scandal wasn't the only one that brewed during Emanuel's tenure. During his brief time on the board, the company hatched a plan to enhance its political muscle.

That scheme, also reviewed by the board, led to a record $3.8 million fine from the Federal Election Commission for illegally using corporate resources to host fundraisers for politicians. Emanuel was the beneficiary of one of those parties after he left the board and ran in 2002 for a seat in Congress from the North Side of Chicago.

The board was throttled for its acquiescence to the accounting manipulation in a 2003 report by Armando Falcon Jr., head of a federal oversight agency for Freddie Mac. The scandal forced Freddie Mac to restate $5 billion in earnings and pay $585 million in fines and legal settlements.

It also foreshadowed even harder times at the firm. Many of those same risky investment practices tied to the accounting scandal eventually brought the firm to the brink of insolvency and led to its seizure last year by the Bush administration, which pledged to inject up to $100 billion in new capital to keep the firm afloat. The Obama administration has doubled that commitment."

SOURCE http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-rahm-emanuel-profit-26-mar26,0,5682373.story

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Rahm Emanuel's Profitable Raping of Freddie_Mac

Before its portfolio of bad loans helped trigger the current housing crisis, mortgage giant Freddie Mac was the focus of a major accounting scandal that led to a management shake-up, huge fines and scalding condemnation of passive directors by a top federal regulator.Emanuel should have to pay back the money he raped from Freddie Mac.

SOURCE http://www.duggback.com/politics/Rahm_Emanuel_s_Profitable_Raping_ofFreddie_Mac/

[ETL]

It certainly does seem like there’s something they’re hiding. There’s no way in the world that such a crazy stunt like this over downtown Manhattan could be justified.

[TigersEye]

The 747-200B aircraft, one of two used as Air Force One, was accompanied by two F-16 fighters from the D.C. Air National Guard, which operates out of Andrews.

Really? Then why does the F-16 in that picture have a red tail? I thought only the planes flown by the Tuskegee Airmen had red tails??? Aren't they based in Alabama? Do they normally fly chase for AF-1?

[ducdriver]

If it were legitimate, it would be easy to explain.

[Liz]

Official Air Force 1 photo--flying over Mt Rushmore.

[ETL]

Then why does the F-16 in that picture have a red tail? I thought only the planes flown by the Tuskegee Airmen had red tails??? Aren't they based in Alabama? Do they normally fly chase for AF-1?

I have no idea. For whatever it's worth, I found this just now...

Original photo caption: Maj. Robert Churchill, 302nd Fighter Squadron pilot, flies an F-16 Viper Sept. 21, 2006, that has been painted with the red tail to commemorate the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. (USAF photo by Tech. Sgt. Lee Harshman)

http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-7039-view-next.html

Yahoo search results for "red tail" "f-16":
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22red+tail%22%22f-16%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2

[Dr. Eckleburg]

lol. Those photos are as real as Obama’s bipartisanship

[ETL]

Red Tail Project:
http://www.redtail.org/archive/2003/032803randolph.html

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Mama Obama was too busy showing her garden party around

Did you say "garden party?"

[TigersEye]

That's a beauty of a picture. I was right, they fly out of Dannely AF base near Montgomery Alabama.

I suppose it's only a coincidence that film maker George Lucas is making a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen.

Red Tails - George lucas does the Tuskegee Airmen

[madinmadtown]

Your point about the Air Force is a good one. It is troubling. One of the other things that has bothered me about the flight itself is the proximity the plane flew to the buildings. Eyewitnesses said that it was just a few hundred feet from the buildings. Obviously the pilots who fly the Air Force One planes are exceptional, but it seems very risky and irrational to fly so close to buildings inhabited by thousands of people. I would imagine that pilots chosen to fly Air Force One are not only very skilled pilots in the essentials of flying, but also very cautious and level-headed. It doesn't make sense.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Agreed. Another thing that does not make sense is the low altitude turn around over Manhattan. Why not do this over a less populated area and at higher elevation? There is nothing to gain in terms of a Statue of Liberty photo op in the way they did this.

I believe the photo op explanation is BS.

[erman]

it was a fundraiser for friends of Obama. Give some money, be my friend.. we'll let you fly over NYC in AF1.

Get the manifest and follow the money. ..... always follow the money.

[1000 silverlings]

Did you say "garden party"

.lol,

If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lotta luck

But if it's photographing NYC for Obama,

I'd rather drive a truck

[CitizenM]

It may have very well been just a pleasure trip for someone. It may have been a instance of adolescent “joyriding” or repayment for services to the president. I don’t know. That explanation is possible, but it doesn’t seem quite right either. They knew that it would cause panic...Why would they do that?

Yes, absolutly the question the media should be asking. Why...would anyone approve THAT particular flight route for a joy ride, or a Photo Op? There is something else about this that is not being told AS USUAL.

Even if they now...under pressure...come up with some photos I would suspect these will be photoshopped! (Which is what everyone said could have been done originally) Just to try to quiet the story and fool the public. That flight was too calculated to not have been for some purpose no one is telling us about. And it was not for "training" which they never would have had to do over NYC like that. I am sick of all the cover up stories that make no sense.