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New Photos Released From Flyover Blunder : The Pentagon also released the flight manifest
NBC NewYork.com ^ | 7/31/2009 | VICTORIA CAVALIERE

Posted on 07/31/2009 9:14:09 PM PDT by mojitojoe

Responding to dozens of requests from the public, the Defense Department has released 146 more photos from the infamous Air Force One flyover that struck fear in thousands of unsuspecting New Yorkers in April.

The photos are posted right on the Pentagon's Website, defense officials said today. The Pentagon also released a heavily redacted flight manifest.

The April 27 photo-op caused quite a fright in Lower Manhattan and New Jersey, as many people who had lived through the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks thought the city was again under siege. Workers poured out of office buildings as the planes buzzed the city near the Financial District.

Local officials in New York and New Jersey had not been informed of the photo-op, which cost some $328,000, and the lack of communication and needless worry caused by the incident led to the resignation of Louis Caldera, the Obama official behind the stunt

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: af1; af1groundzeroflyover; airforceone; bhoairforceone; blunders; duplicate; flyover; newyork; obamaaf1flyover; photogate; securitybreach; usaf
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1 posted on 07/31/2009 9:14:10 PM PDT by mojitojoe
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The Pentagon also released a heavily redacted flight manifest.

What, he released a copy of his BC?

Transparency you can believe in!

2 posted on 07/31/2009 9:18:07 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Move over NetZero - Obama's in the house!)
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To: mojitojoe

More info. Where’s the flight manifest?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/more-mock-air-force-one-flyover-photos/


3 posted on 07/31/2009 9:19:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Obama--POtuS.)
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To: mojitojoe

We have adolescents with a chip on their shoulders in charge.


4 posted on 07/31/2009 9:20:22 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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The Pentagon also released a heavily redacted flight manifest.

Who cares about the pictures... I want to know who all went joyriding on that flight.

5 posted on 07/31/2009 9:22:40 PM PDT by CheneyChick
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To: mojitojoe

Just as I suspected. I could have done that with Photoshop.


6 posted on 07/31/2009 9:23:13 PM PDT by smith288 (Americans suffer from Stockholm Syndrome with the government)
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Why would the manifest be redacted? Was Obama selling seats on the plane?


7 posted on 07/31/2009 9:23:28 PM PDT by hattend (Thank You, Sarah. We Alaskans will miss you.)
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To: CheneyChick

And on top of that who ordered it.


8 posted on 07/31/2009 9:23:51 PM PDT by KJC1
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why was the manifest redacted?

You take a plane up for photos and need only the operations crew.

What? There were political donors aboard?

Never mind...

9 posted on 07/31/2009 9:24:59 PM PDT by llevrok (As a matter of fact, yes I DO care if Jimmy cracks corn !)
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To: mojitojoe

Imagine the outrage if Bush had done this. The MSM would still be talking about it today.

Obammy gets a pass on everything.


10 posted on 07/31/2009 9:26:00 PM PDT by garyhope
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To: garyhope

I want to know who was on that plane.


11 posted on 07/31/2009 9:28:01 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for the people to remain silent.)
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If Dan Quayle had done something like this, they would have hung him from a rope. Hardly a word about Obama okaying the deed.

This looks almost as if it was done to tweak folks who were so terrorized on 09/11. Could any Muslim activist desiring to cause concern in New York have done anything more inappropriate, without actually committing a crime? No.

This was disgusting to the max.


12 posted on 07/31/2009 9:28:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (_Resident of the United States and Kenya's favorite son, Baraaaack Hussein Obamaaaa...)
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To: llevrok

why was the manifest redacted?
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That’s what I want to know. All they do is lie and cheat. I really despise these people.


13 posted on 07/31/2009 9:29:12 PM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for the people to remain silent.)
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To: mojitojoe

Under SIEGE? Under ATTACK!


14 posted on 07/31/2009 9:31:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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The flight manifest only shows USAF personnel.

From the pictures, and from recollection, it was a crappy day, hazy and not clear at all.

You would have to photoshop these pictures to make them look decent. Run throught the photos and you will see the horrible colors as they buzz around the Statue of Liberty, NJ and lower Manhattan, and the haziness.

The 146 photos are stock stuff that certainly already exists.

I also thought there was a “Redtail” chase plane. There were two fighters, F-16s, but the only one in the pictures does not have a red tail. The Redtail must have been the photo plane, then.

A joyride on a crappy, hazy day, to take mediocre photos of AF-1 that already exist in better colors and wasting $ 328,000, adding to the degradation of the precious greenhouse, adding pollution to the air and wasting precious fuel(/sarc)?

Someone is still pulling our leg.


15 posted on 07/31/2009 9:32:13 PM PDT by exit82 (Sarah Palin is President No. 45. Get behind her, GOP, or get out of the way.)
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To: mojitojoe
Just a guess here, but I bet some of those redacted names belong to practitioners of the Religion of Peace.
16 posted on 07/31/2009 9:32:22 PM PDT by 50cal Smokepole (Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
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To: DoughtyOne

What a collage of stink we already have from Obama and it hasn’t even been a year yet.


17 posted on 07/31/2009 9:32:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: 50cal Smokepole

Who knows. Barack “transparent government” Obama is the king of opaque.


18 posted on 07/31/2009 9:34:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: mojitojoe

The redacted manifest makes no sense to me . Looked at it and do not understand the reason to make the redactions.


19 posted on 07/31/2009 9:34:45 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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The only thing that seems redacted are the people’s names and they were all air force members, probably attendents and crew.

I figured there were hundreds of donors on the plane.


20 posted on 07/31/2009 9:38:27 PM PDT by hattend (Thank You, Sarah. We Alaskans will miss you.)
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