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Caldera Ousted

I predicted it would take 2 days.  It took 11.

WASHINGTON - 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.

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.

The White House will reportedly release its self-vindicating review of the fiasco later today.

Update:  There's the $357,000 photo.  This couldn't have been achieved with 10 minutes of Photoshop?

Update:  And here's the report.

Previously:
My President's Plane Went To Lower Manhattan and All I Got Was This Stupid Ulcer
Another Building-Buzzing Air Force One Glamor Shot Slated For DC?
Audio of 911 Calls Prompted by Ingenious Air Force One Photo Op
Video Of the Idiotic Air Force One Photo Op (And Frightened New Yorkers Fleeing)

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Caldera Ousted

I predicted it would take 2 days.  It took 11.

WASHINGTON - 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.

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.

The White House will reportedly release its self-vindicating review of the fiasco later today.

Update:  There's the $357,000 photo.  This couldn't have been achieved with 10 minutes of Photoshop?

Update:  And here's the report.

Previously:
My President's Plane Went To Lower Manhattan and All I Got Was This Stupid Ulcer
Another Building-Buzzing Air Force One Glamor Shot Slated For DC?
Audio of 911 Calls Prompted by Ingenious Air Force One Photo Op
Video Of the Idiotic Air Force One Photo Op (And Frightened New Yorkers Fleeing)