WASHINGTON – The White House official who authorized a $328,835 photo-op of Air Force One soaring above New York City resigned Friday just weeks after the flyover sparked panicked workers to rush into the streets and flashbacks to Sept. 11. Louis Caldera said the controversy had "made it impossible for me to effectively lead the White House Military Office," which is responsible for presidential aircraft.
"Moreover, it has become a distraction in the important work you are doing as president," Caldera wrote in his resignation letter to President Barack Obama.
An internal White House investigation found missed messages and portrayed an out-of-the-loop Caldera, clearly the administration's fall guy.
The former Army secretary in the Clinton administration said he didn't know Air Force One would fly at 1,000 feet during the April 27 photo shoot that had been planned for weeks. He also failed to read an e-mail message describing the operation and seemed unaware of the potential for public fear, the report said.
Without an advance public notice the morning of April 27, the sight of the huge passenger jet and an F-16 fighter plane flying near the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan's financial district terrified New Yorkers,
Maybe BO's administration is beginning to unravel. It's clear that BO knew about this fly over. I believe a lot of this administration will start to take the fall for BO.
ReplyDeleteAs he staffed his administration with idiots it will not be long before the next screw up.
ReplyDeleteGood Grief! Can anyone here say..."BRAINDEAD"?
ReplyDeleteYEP.........BRAINDEAD.....unreal!!
ReplyDeleteBraindead? too much credit is being given here. You have to have possessed a brain to be brain dead. If it never existed it cant be dead.
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
ReplyDeleteHoney says most people can be either a)ignorant or b)stupid; if you don't know something, thats ignorance, and can be overcome. If you don't know something, are informed, and persist in doing it anyway, that's called STUPID.