White House Keeping NYC Flyover Pics Under Wraps

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

If a 747 and supersonic jet fighter buzz the Manhattan skyline as part of an ill-conceived photo-op, but the pictures are never seen, did it really happen?

The White House hopes not.

The photos of Air Force One's low flyover of Manhattan will not be released, CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller confirms.

The operation, carried out by the Defense Department and designed to capture one of the president's planes near national landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, sent panicked New Yorkers rushing from their office buildings April 27, fearful of a terrorist attack reminiscent of 9/11.

But now the photo-op will apparently yield no photos. The New York Post first reported the White House's plans to keep the pictures under wraps, citing an unnamed administration official as saying "we have no plans to release them."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/05/05/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4991828.shtml

[HopeHoops]

1. Even the Pentagon has dumb-ass marketeers

"Hey, I've got an idea, lets barnstorm NYC with a 747 - yeah, people will LOVE it!"

[DS1]

2. Otherwise it would be a week of "and partially rightly so"

Why are we spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a photo op so we can get these while we're in a deficit? At which point, Media scum holds up the photos.

It was a stupid idea, and the moron behind it should be booted.

of course, the media should be all over the important stuff, and not have time to worry about this

[Mme. Defarge]

3. One of our family members

was working in lower Manhattan that day, and also on 9-11. He was completely truamatized by the incident, and believes that Obama did it on purpose, presumably to send Wall Street a message. This really was a very unfortunate incident because of the secrecy involved.

[Butch350]

6. And what message might that be? Obama did it? Whaaaa?

[Mme. Defarge]

11. Something like that, I guess.

He was truly traumatized, but probably more than a little paranoid over the unraveling of the financial services "industry."

[onehandle]

4. Kind of a shame. I'd like to see them.

We paid for them. The money is already spent. They should be placed in the National Archives.

[Hoopla Phil]

5. The photos should be made public.

[frylock]

7. another $300,000 down the shitter..

and for what?! fuckin idjits.

[vinylsolution]

8. Obama probably had no idea....

.... the flyover was going to happen.

I suspect one of Cheney's moles inside the Pentagon directed the whole operation.

[Tempest]

9. It was a Bush holdover who came up with the idea

Someone in another thread about this had all the details.

[Mme. Defarge]

12. Just so they don't drop Obama

in the middle of the financial district wearing a codpiece and carrying a sign that reads "Mission Accomplished."

On second thought ...

[Javaman]

10. "The operation, carried out by the Defense Department "

Why do I get the really bad feeling that some moron cooked this bullshit up to cover a free flight for friends of someone on the real "airforce 1"? Without Obama knowing about it?