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After Flyover of Air Force One Backup, Military Office Director Resigns (One Picture Released)
NYTIMES ^
| 5/08/2009
| NYTimes
Posted on 05/08/2009 9:51:12 PM PDT by Dallas59
The director of the White House Military Office submitted his resignation on Friday, less than two weeks after he authorized a flyover by an Air Force One backup of the Statue of Liberty that terrified thousands of people in New York City.
Louis Caldera, who served as the secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, apologized for the distraction that approving the flyover caused. He said in a brief letter to President Obama on Friday that it has made it impossible for me to effectively lead the White House Military Office.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: af1; airfarceone; bhoairforceone; caldera; georgelucas; obuma; photoop; redtails; tuskegeeairmen
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posted on
05/08/2009 9:51:12 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Dallas59
Hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of panicked New Yorkers for this?
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posted on
05/08/2009 9:52:29 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: Dallas59
Louis Caldera, who served as the secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, apologized for the distraction that approving the flyover caused. He said in a brief letter to President Obama on Friday that it has made it impossible for me to effectively lead the White House Military Office.He's taking the fall for O.
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posted on
05/08/2009 9:53:46 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: Dallas59
They sure are good at arousing my curiosity and activating my disbelief (my BS facor if you will).
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posted on
05/08/2009 9:54:46 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Dallas59
He authorized it. . .who proposed it?
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posted on
05/08/2009 9:58:41 PM PDT
by
McBuff
To: JimSEA
At least we know that AF1 or a 747 can fly.
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posted on
05/08/2009 9:59:26 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: Dallas59; Liz; writer33; AT7Saluki
One picture is worth $138,000?
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posted on
05/08/2009 9:59:45 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Tea Totaler)
To: Dallas59
Late Friday news dump. They don’t want this talked about any more.
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:02:56 PM PDT
by
freedomlover
(Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
To: Dallas59
Poor composition from a photographic standpoint.
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:07:22 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:08:20 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: Dallas59
They’re going to have to get a bigger bus.
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:08:30 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(The second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:10:28 PM PDT
by
stboz
To: rdl6989
Poor composition from a photographic standpoint.What snapped the photo - an F-16?
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:10:32 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Tea Totaler)
To: Dallas59
all traumatized New York3ers should file the biggest class action lawsuit in history
To: Libloather
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:12:12 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
That’s what I was thinking. What a bad photo. Poorly laid out. Poorly balanced.
Not to mention the symbolic message is that the presidency is being used as a vehicle of power to lord over our liberty.
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:13:06 PM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(The most dangerous fascists are those with a warm smile and soothing voice.)
To: Inyo-Mono
I thot I read that Caldera was a civilian guy, not a military man?
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:13:20 PM PDT
by
bboop
(obama, little o, not a Real God)
To: Inyo-Mono
Actually...if you start reading the whole report and other media notes....I’d say that the Director is undergoing a mental breakdown. This was way beyond his abilities in assuming this job and like so many people over the past thirty years...he was not up to the situation.
This guy will disappear for a period of six months....sitting in some rehab center...and try to get his life back to normal.
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
Actually not a bad photo considering that it was probably taken by the fighter jet pilot for his own personal album.
Brown clown was desperate for a photo and got lucky that the
pilot had taken a photo during the joyride over Manhattan.
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:15:10 PM PDT
by
Josa
To: bboop
I thot I read that Caldera was a civilian guy, not a military man?That is correct. He comes from some college in new Mexico
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posted on
05/08/2009 10:17:44 PM PDT
by
fso301
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