White House Won’t Release Alleged Photos from Air Force Operation Over Lower Manhattan
May 5th, 2009And Now: White House Will Release a Photo
The White House plans to soon release a photo from the controversial Air Force One-style flyover of Manhattan last week, despite claiming earlier that there was no need to release any official images from the incident.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that an internal report will probably be completed this week.
“We’ll release its findings and release a photo,” he said.
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Seriously, people, WTF was this?
Via: New York Post:
The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.
“We have no plans to release them,” an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.
The sole purpose of the secret photo-op, which sent thousands of New Yorkers running for cover, was to take new publicity shots of the presidential jet over the city.
“The photos . . . are classified — that’s ridiculous,” Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., said.
The photos have not technically been “classified,” a White House aide said, but they are being kept from public view.
It’s definitely ET related…everytime there is an airforce blunder followed by a PR bullshit bonanza, you know it’s ET related. The types of groups they really can’t fuck with like they want to.
P.S. Nasa, I want my money back.
According to cryptome, it was possibly a fast landing-approach drill, a ground-sensor drill, a counter-measures drill, or some combination thereof.
The more I think about it, the more I think that Sorcha Faal’s explanation makes much more sense than the official story…
[Links to 100% bullshit sites wastes everyone’s time. Last warning. —Kevin]
Could this have been perception management? Maybe one of the main points of this was just to see how the media and public would react.
For fuck’s sake, guys. Aliens and Sucha Fool on a single thread!?
This is the most embarrassed I’ve felt about comments in a long time.
As non-eye-witnesses with no relevant insider status, all we can do is speculate.
The photo-op explanation seemed plausible because it is exactly the kind of stupid, wasteful thing governments are always doing . . . yet, its plausibility does not mean it is what happened. It certainly is a good cover story because everybody KNOWS that the government does stupid wasteful things like it, because everybody is constantly told such by the media.
The air-drill exercise is also plausible; Obama was alleged to not be aboard at the time, but why would they go into NYC airspace? Why not just practice somewhere else, out of sight, etc.? Why use an Airforce 1 clone? Why not just use an unmarked plane? Again, maybe they screwed up their mission by making the papers, although one would be hard-pressed to imagine covering up something like this from public view.
Then again, one could just as easily imagine that it was actually a neo-nazi faction of the airforce performing a complex rite to Baldur, the Germanic Sun God, with the plane as a wand.
We’ll probably never know for sure.
Here ya go… none of the pictures came out worth a shit. It’s a third of a million dollar blunder (probably several million when you add in incidentals) during the biggest economic crisis the U.S. has ever seen. It makes Bush’s aircraft carrier landing seem cheap. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Don’t feel too bad Kevin, it’s just the wild and wooly Wurlitzer weaving its wonderful spell.
I’m inclined to follow the Lt. Col’s lead in the direction of “if it wasn’t just a photo op but a military operation, what options are most likely”.
The given list is realistic, perhaps strengthened only with the “no particular order of priority” caveat, though my personal preference leans strongly toward “some combination thereof”.
Now, to link this up with Ray’s Hell Burger and see if we can’t take a baby step back in the general direction of wisdom (though fools can be useful for illstrative purposes now and again), I often wonder if some of these “shock” events aren’t simply just a “stone in the pond”: make a splash and observe the ripples, if you will.
Think of it as the Focus Group merged with Shock & Awe, by way of beaing able to gauge reactions — and also observe their network of rat/sat lines for actionable intel.
They probably took pictures too, which they will eventually release after a period of playing hard to get, by way of “differentiating” the new pride of black shirts from the last pack via a careful media campaign in the wake of the whole charade.
Or similar. You get my drift.
Or maybe it was David Duchovny taking flying lessons. How the f**k am I supposed to know? =)
Ahh, ok, now I have seen the videos and pics…
Wow, this shows a complete contempt for new yorkers and a willful act of criminal psyop bullying. Absolutely putrid. There is no way anyone can explain this event as anything other than a horrid act of insidious treachery on the MIC’s part. Pure psychotic bravado at work.
Unless of course, the jet was stolen and they were covering for it with this photo bullshit story ‘a la’ the loose nukes from Minot debacle from 07.
Well, I finally saw the video; that appears to be one large plane.
For some reason, my paranoia prism, or rather, my harsh reality prism failed to kick in and offer up more pessimistic interpretations.
Of course, any one event can have dozens of goals and objectives. What may have been an ill-thought drill or photo-op for one faction may also contemporaneously be a covert threat or display of force of another faction.
So, here goes:
1. Some faction planned it as a psy-op to haunt New Yorkers with the spectre of a plane-based terrorist attack post Obama victory. You can here the guy on camera go “OMG” as the plane appears to head towards a building. This faction perhaps suggested or supported what was clearly a bad idea;
2. Some faction hijacked the plane remotely using the Global Hawk trick as a display of force to whoever planned the original drill, the fighter was waiting for the shoot-down order or for implicit permission to use its own discretion; the faction neglected to crash the plane, only wanting to make the point that it could remotely use a plane, even an Air Force One plane as a missile. Maybe Obama was even aboard the jet;
The variations with #2 make good action flick / spy novel fodder, but we would never know except for maybe 100 years down the road when some historian finally notices some footnote in a recently released batch of declassified records.