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Nineteen retired generals, admirals, and former top civilian defense officials have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing former President Donald Trump’s plea for immunity from prosecution, claiming that granting such a request would pose a significant threat to national security. The Supreme Court is set to deliberate on Trump’s presidential immunity argument on April 25, as reported by The Gateway Pundit. The Supreme Court will deliberate on whether a president can be shielded from legal consequences for actions taken while in office. The decision, which may not arrive until late June, according to analysts, has significant repercussions...

Louis Caldera, the former White House Military Office chief who quit last month after approving that bizarre Air Force One photo op over Manhattan that frightened countless New Yorkers, has landed a job. He'll be a senior fellow focusing on higher education and national security matters at the Center for American Progress, run by John Podesta, a co-chairman of Obama's transition team. Obama aides said at the time that the president was furious about the April 27 flyover, which included an Air Force One understudy and two F-16 military fighter aircraft flying over the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan,...

It cost the U.S. taxpayer $357,000 and cost Louis Caldera his White House gig. Perhaps if you were able to zoom in really really close you could probably even see the citizens of New York City running in the streets.

White House Military Office Chief Resigns Over Plane Flyover Flap Louis Caldera, the man who organized the low-flying Air Force One plane that panicked New York City, delivered his resignation Friday as the White House released a photo of the plane.

The Air Force One flyover story is not over, much as the Obama administration would love to shut it down. According to the official version put out by the White House, one Louis Caldera picked up the phone and set the whole thing in motion for the purpose of a highly expensive photo-op of Air Force One with Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty in the background. Meanwhile nobody else in the White House knew a thing about it. And if you believe that, I have a Brooklyn Bridge in the photo-op background that I want to sell you....

What is remarkable about the mainstream media coverage of the Air Force One flyover scandal in New York last week is how incurious they remain. NewsBusters managing editor, Ken Shepherd, has already pointed out how the Washington Post has labeled a mere 54-word apology as "profuse." Currently the MSM seems to accept the explanation that it was was an obscure official in the White House who caused Air Force One to fly low over New York. Here is more from the same "profuse apology" Washington Post article: The FAA did not return calls fo comment, and the Air Force referred...

An Air Force One lookalike, the backup plane for the one regularly used by the president, flew low over parts of New York and New Jersey on Monday morning, accompanied by two F-16 fighters, so Air Force photographers could take pictures high above the New York harbor. But the exercise — conducted without any notification to the public — caused momentary panic in some quarters and led to the evacuation of several buildings in Lower Manhattan and Jersey City. By the afternoon, the situation had turned into a political fuse box, with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg saying that he was...

Just plane dumb. A perfect storm of idiocy led to a frightening 9/11 flashback for thousands of New Yorkers Monday when a jumbo jet and an F-16 fighter jet buzzed lower Manhattan without warning. A "furious" Mayor Bloomberg denounced the dunces who dreamed up the stunt - and the NYPD officials and bureaucrats who never told him about it. By day's end, an obscure City Hall deputy named Marc Mugnos, who makes $60,000 a year, was taking the fall for not telling Bloomberg that the low-flying planes were coming. He was reprimanded. But there was plenty of blame to go...

NY Post: The planes flew over the Verrazano Bridge, buzzed the left ear Lady Liberty and then continued up the Hudson past Jersey City and then circling back toward Staten Island, federal sources told the Post. Thousands flooded the streets downtown as buildings called evacuations.

-SNIP-Obama today announced that former UNM President Louis Caldera will serve as Director of the White House Military Office. In his new post, Caldera will coordinate all military support for Presidential operations. -SNIP- Also, according to the news release, Caldera has had a "30-year career as a soldier, lawyer, legislator, high ranking government official, university president and professor of law." Caldera, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a former member of the California Assembly and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He earned his law and business degrees at Harvard University in 1987,...