Washington – The White House has put the brakes on plans to classify last week’s controversial Air Force One-style flyover of Manhattan after it claimed yesterday that there was no need to release official images of the incident.
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters today that an internal report will probably be completed this week.
“We’ll release its findings and release a photo,” he said.
The news came after the baffling decision to classify the well-documentened (and totally scary) low-flying F-16 and Air Force One clone photo-op that scared the holy heck out of lower Manhattan.
Mayor Bloomberg took a little shot at Team Obama Tuesday, questioning the public relations-savvy of the administration’s decision to keep the publicity photos of low-flying plane under wraps.
“If I were them, I think I’d get less publicity by putting them out rather than by keeping them in,” Bloomberg said. “They did not ask about coming up here and flying that plane around and they did not ask me about the photos either.”
The glamour shots taken during the $328,835 photo op sparked fears of a terrorist attack and caused scores to run for cover, but the Obama administration told the New York Post Tuesday that the infamous publicity stills would never see the light of day even though other pictures and even video are already public.
“Look in the papers. There are the photos,” said the mayor who seemed a little amused by it all. “I don’t know what could possibly be classified. Maybe there’s some national interest that I’m not familiar with.”
The White House didn’t tell all necessary local authorities about the government-sponsored photo op that involved a Boeing 747 and an F-16 fighter jet whizzing past the New York City skyline — and instead told those in the know not to share information about the super secret photo op with the public.
I usually don’t believe in conspiracies but the government must have had something else in mind. Maybe they were testing a strategy in case of emergency… Why else would a photo op be such a secret that even the mayor of nyc didn’t know about it.
for a change Bloomberg is making some sense
Wake up guys……this was NO photo op…..& hizoner did know abt it….
Question to ask:
Who was on that plane? Who was getting treated to a free joy ride (or was it film shoot?) at taxpayer expense.
This man is bankrupting and taking over companies, spending all of the money that exist and doesn’t, and hasn’t cut a dime of white house expenditures.
We live in an “Obamalian” world.
About FAA sanctions? Flying a heavy over congested areas at altitudes of less than 1000 feet is a clear violation FAR 91. Book em!
obama first said he would not release it the guys a bum lost all respect for the president.