Manhattan, NY – White House Aide Loses Job Over Manhattan Flyover Fiasco Involving Air Force One

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    CalderaManhattan, NY – The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.

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    President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, the Daily News learned Friday.

    A secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, Caldera took the fall for the public relations fiasco arising from the April 27 flyover, which was designed to replace a publicity photo of Air Force One flying past Mount Rushmore with a similar shot of Obama’s 747 jumbo jet over the Statue of Liberty.

    Caldera’s office insisted the flyover was a “classified” mission and should not be disclosed to the public, ensuring that thousands of New Yorkers would be blindsided by an event eerily reminiscent of the 9/11 terror attacks against the Twin Towers.

    Federal officials notified Mayor Bloomberg’s office and NYPD officials in advance, but Bloomberg was not informed, infuriating the mayor.
    The jet that serves as Air Force One flies over the Statue of Liberty in New York on 27 April. Photograph: The White House


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    the money
    the money
    14 years ago

    what took so long..they should also fire the bloomberg guy who kept it a secret from everyone including bloomberg….what morons.

    Yes!  It is my fault.
    Yes! It is my fault.
    14 years ago

    Yeah, right!

    He is the “eglah arufah” ….

    He is the sacrifice to show and try to prove the lie: “It is not Obama’s fault. It is just this one guy.”

    They call him “The Fall Guy” … the one who falls to protect the important one.
    He is like the “Fuse” which burns out to protect the main machine.

    In this case, we all know where the blame lies. In that big mistake we put in the White House.

    Yes! It is my fault. I was one of the MORONS who voted for him.

    Fall Guy
    Fall Guy
    14 years ago

    Right – it was all his fault – now we see the style of the new presidency – who can we blame!

    OPEN UP YOUR EYES PEOPLE
    OPEN UP YOUR EYES PEOPLE
    14 years ago

    The more I think about it the more it hits me that this was way more than a photo op. Why would a photo op be so “classified” and why would this guy have to lose his job over this? They are trying to make us think that it was just a photo op. By this guy losing his job we focus on him and not realize that in reality theres a very foul stench coming out of the white house.
    I didn’t love BUSH but at least with him, what you see is what you get. Obama is a sneaky snake. Everything is fake about him. We need to be very careful and be ready to fight for our rights because I fear that this president doesn’t really care about the people, he cares about himself is ego and his ambitions. He wants ABSOLUTE POWER. Feel free to disagree but I think that this country is headed towards communism and fascism. Our freedoms will be slowly taken away bit by bit until the point where we realize that we are no longer free. But by then it will be too late.

    Jeff
    Jeff
    14 years ago

    It was Miss Liberty’s fault.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Welcome to Fascist America

    classified nonsense
    classified nonsense
    14 years ago

    How does it make any sense that this flyover should be classified when 1/2 of New York was sure to see it!

    This comment makes no sense at all. The fact that they were going to fly would be top secret and then everyone would be scared to death by the planes flying low and this was to be a secret?!

    There is something fishy here. There is more to this than meets the eye.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Obama is the one who should be fired over this.

    "sure"
    "sure"
    14 years ago

    there is something wrong here and i am sure it took so long for these pics because he needed time to photoshop them because these pictures never really existed

    paidoff
    paidoff
    14 years ago

    I wonder how much he got paid by obama to take the blame

    outrageous
    outrageous
    14 years ago

    There is certainly something very suspicious about this whole story. We should not allow this to be brushed away and forgotten. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
    This man is an outrage, and an imposter.