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Official e-mails reveal boondoggle over Air Force One's Manhattan flyover
New York Daily News ^ | 08-01-09 | Leo Standora

Posted on 08/01/2009 11:32:07 AM PDT by KJC1

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A barrage of e-mails between officials right after the flight made public Friday showed a flurry of second guessing, finger-pointing, attempts at damage control - even comparisons between them and The Three Stooges.

"We ... need to construct some sort of timeline on when folks became aware of it if that is possible," one Air Force official wrote, responding to the public fright.

"I agree we .. . need to accomplish damage control, but we aren't the POC (point of contact)," the response reads. "Nor do I want to become a belly button for NORAD to push on this one."

A top Pentagon spokeswoman: "Nothing like having everyone point the finger at someone else so we ALL look like a big bunch of buffoons ... can you say Moe, Larry & Curly!??!?!"

The e-mails were released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests by CNN and other news organizations.

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(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoairforceone; flyover; norad; usaf

1 posted on 08/01/2009 11:32:08 AM PDT by KJC1
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To: KJC1
can you say Moe, Larry & Curly!??!?!"

No, they were patriotic Americans... but I can say Karl, Joe & Vladymir!!!

2 posted on 08/01/2009 11:37:56 AM PDT by Feckless (No Birth Certificate... No Peace)
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To: KJC1

3 posted on 08/01/2009 11:41:01 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Feckless

Barry, Mao and Karly (plus Joe)?


4 posted on 08/01/2009 11:44:16 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Feckless

well then, was it party time on Air Force 1, or not???


5 posted on 08/01/2009 11:51:08 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: elpadre

Look at the number of enlisted on that manifest whose names were redacted and you can take it to the bank that there were a lot of passengers on this plane. The enlisted are there as stewards to serve food and drink and clean up afterwards. They even added additional ones that didn’t get paid for the flight.

As for a training flight, give me a break! I would bet it a flight for donors with expensive food. Someone needs to ask the AF for their food purchases during this time period.


6 posted on 08/01/2009 11:54:52 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: KJC1
From the comments below the story...

jacktwo Aug 1, 2009 10:28:55 AM Report Offensive Post This is all the fault of Sarah Palin and Foxnews. Palin probably wrote an email to the Air Force urging them to do this and then Foxnews just happened to have a cameraman there to film it. Oh yes those right-wingers are devious. They are probably sitting in Alaska eating mooseburgers right at this moment while plotting their next devious scheme to undermine our brilliant President.

7 posted on 08/01/2009 11:58:42 AM PDT by WVKayaker (God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.-D.Webster)
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To: PhiKapMom

Since we paid for it....HOW ABOUT A LIST of the names of everyone who attended that was NOT ordered to attend like the military were. If this was a PAYOFF, who was ON THAT PLANE.


8 posted on 08/01/2009 12:15:11 PM PDT by Republic (Ubama OWES Sgt Crowley a HUGE APOLOGY right away...if he can man up, he will do this immediately)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Joe Stalin


9 posted on 08/01/2009 12:24:02 PM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: KJC1

bttt


10 posted on 08/01/2009 12:27:33 PM PDT by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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To: KJC1

Do we know where Obama was during this time? I would love to read the full exchange, to see if the military designated it Air Force One (meaning he was actually on board).

A transcript of the conversation between the pilot and control tower would be nice, too, because Obama feigned outrage.

It was probably some fundraising activity or reward, in the manner of the Lincoln Bedroom.


11 posted on 08/01/2009 12:42:34 PM PDT by scott7278 (Obama, Klaatu barada nikto!)
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To: PhiKapMom

Where did you see the manifest?


12 posted on 08/01/2009 1:00:15 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: Krodg

http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/newyorkcityflyover/Air_Force_One_Flyover_Flight_Manifest.pdf

Note that all but the head AF One Pilot’s name was redacted. All those enlisted you see are going to be stewards. There is no reason to call this a training flight when this crew had been flying Obama around the world and would have been in training for ZERO becoming President after the election.


13 posted on 08/01/2009 3:12:50 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: Republic

I second that — obvious from the crew manifest where names were redacted that the WH and AF did not want any of the crew contacted except the lead pilot Turner. Those were orders for the crew but not a passenger manifest.


14 posted on 08/01/2009 3:14:31 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn/Rubio - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: scott7278

That is why it would be NICE to know WHO PAID for it?


15 posted on 08/01/2009 4:23:28 PM PDT by Republic (Ubama OWES Sgt Crowley a HUGE APOLOGY right away...if he can man up, he will do this immediately)
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To: Republic
That is why it would be NICE to know WHO PAID for it?

You even have to ask? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! Round up the usual suspects, and hand them the bill...

Regards,
GtG

16 posted on 08/01/2009 5:51:04 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray
That is why it would be NICE to know WHO PAID for it?

You anywhere close to a mirror?

17 posted on 08/01/2009 5:51:47 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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