Late Friday personnel dump: Scare Force One staffer “resigns”

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 8, 2009 04:48 PM

White House Military Office director Louis Caldera tendered his resignation this afternoon. The NY Daily News has the story.

Here’s the official review of the incident. It does not cover DoD or FAA involvement. The report says “Initial planning” began in “March 2009 or earlier” without specifying who exactly initiated the planning and why. Caldera blames “severe back muscle spasms” and his recent return from a trip to Mexico for his failure to read e-mail concerning the mission. Also: He had a grand total of two email accounts. You can’t expect a crony paper-pusher to keep track of all that!

The White House report blamed “organizational” and “structural ambiguities” for the crony paper-pusher’s incompetence.

The White House also released a photo. Your tax dollars at work.

Caldera’s disappearance under the Obama bus does not and should not end questions about the origin of the p.r. photo-op mission’s request, who participated, how it went down, and where protocol failed. And remember: Someone was planning a second flyover photo-op in Washington, D.C.

Late Friday afternoon personnel/document dumps are business as usual in Washington.

What happened to Hope and Change?

Yes, it’s getting crowded under there:

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  1. #101
    On May 9th, 2009 at 3:58 pm, Laree said:

    You will love this -this is the fruit of the love of your countrymen bears. It is sad warning, Marines sacrificed but left an imprint forever.

    http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/05/thankyou_ms_mil.html

  2. #103
    On May 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm, tiredofit08 said:
  3. #104
    On May 9th, 2009 at 9:11 pm, Anon Y. Mous said:

    Has anyone established that Obama was not on that plane? If he was, that would explain his administration’s insistence that New York officials who knew about the upcoming event were threatened into silence. If some of the photos from that event included interior shots of the plane and Obama himself, that would also explain their weird behavior towards releasing the photos.

  4. #105
    On May 9th, 2009 at 10:38 pm, prendad said:

    The egoist prez obama WAS on the airplane. There is no doubt in my mind. He has threatened, as usual, everyone in the know that if they leak a word he will absolutely destroy their lives.

  5. #106
    On May 9th, 2009 at 10:40 pm, prendad said:

    Hey, Obama, PROVE that you were not on the airplane. And, while you are at it, I want to see the birth certificate.

  6. #107
    On May 9th, 2009 at 10:50 pm, SHoward said:

    Prendad, I think Obamachev was actually giving a speech at the time the plane buzzed new york, so there’s already proof.

    However, its still up for conjecture who else may have been on the plane for a little joyride at taxpayer expense.

  7. #108
    On May 9th, 2009 at 11:37 pm, prendad said:

    On May 9th, 2009 at 10:50 pm, SHoward said:
    Prendad, I think Obamachev was actually giving a speech at the time the plane buzzed new york, so there’s already proof.

    Oh well, thanks for setting me straight. I just hate this guy. Hey folks, something you will never see on a liberal blog, I admit I was wrong.

  8. #109
    On May 9th, 2009 at 11:39 pm, prendad said:

    I still want to see the birth certificate, and not the military one, the official state one. Thank you.

  9. #110
    On May 9th, 2009 at 11:58 pm, frontierguy said:

    However, its still up for conjecture who else may have been on the plane for a little joyride at taxpayer expense.

    Could have been Hilldog. He probably still owes her for not outing him over the birth certificate.

  10. #111
    On May 10th, 2009 at 12:30 am, fuseman said:

    more then a few new yorkers have photos of this. an “investigative reporter” could offer some $ for the photos and get the real story.

  11. #112
    On May 10th, 2009 at 8:16 am, FilmLadd said:

    On May 8th, 2009 at 4:51 pm, ThatSamIAm said:

    Stay tuned for the next Obama horror flick: pRESIDENT EVIL – attack of the Obama Zombies

    I’m sorta already doing that.

    Hive Mind.

  12. #113
    On May 10th, 2009 at 10:06 am, GladzKravtz said:

    Think this happened on a weekday…does anyone know if the ‘girls’ were in school that day?? Maybe even a field day for the whole class.
    3rd time…Where’s our leak?!!

  13. #114
    On May 10th, 2009 at 10:29 am, rightwingrocker said:

    And, while you are at it, I want to see the birth certificate.

    He’s been ordered by a court to show it. Makes you wonder why he hasn’t, doesn’t it?

    Not me. There’s only one reason he wouldn’t show his vault birth certificate as ordered by the court:

    IT DOESN’T EXIST!

    Mr. Obama was born on British soil to a British father and a mother who was too young to legally confer American citizenship upon him at the time. Three strikes against any notion of natural-born citizenship.

    End of story? I hope not. this needs to be pursued – and as diligently as possible.

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  14. #115
    On May 10th, 2009 at 11:31 am, gco said:

    On May 9th, 2009 at 2:10 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:
    All I can say is “Cinco de quatro…”

    O.k., but can you say it in “Austrian?”

  15. #116
    On May 10th, 2009 at 12:38 pm, puhiawa said:

    who was in the plane? Where is the manifest.

  16. #118
    On May 10th, 2009 at 3:10 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Cinco de quatro mein her…..

  17. #121
    On May 10th, 2009 at 8:10 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On May 8th, 2009 at 4:50 pm, Paul Revere said:

    No sane person can possibly believe B.H. Obama didn’t know about this.

    Indeed. Scare Force One was an inside job.

    Yes, I’m a truther…but not your regular, run-of-the-mill truther…

    A Different “9/11 Truth”

    I challenge anyone to disprove those truth statements.

    Domestic enemies are at war against this country, and they now control two of the three branches of our federal government.

  18. #122
    On May 10th, 2009 at 8:16 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Yes, it’s getting crowded under there

    Under My Bus: ZoBama’s 100 Days & Throwing People Under

  19. #124
    On May 11th, 2009 at 8:00 am, pressto said:

    The White House also released a photo.

    I finally looked at closer at this photo and it is low quality photo that looks like it was taken by one of the pilots in one of the F-16 escorts, not by a professional White House photographer. You can see in the lower right were it is blacked out from the cockpit and the canopy reflection and the quality of this photo is from some cheap digital camera.

    If this was suppose to be an official White House photo op, then where is the official professional photos and who is the suppose professional photographer?

    When I saw the videos by people from NY of the planes flying it had the 747 and 2 F-16 and I never saw another plane that would hold a photographer. In case you don’t know F-16 are single seated planes, so where is the photographers plane? I am starting to believe this was not a photo op, but instead a joy ride for friends.

    I hope the media does not drop this and demands the passenger manifest and real professional photos, if they are any, actually be release.

  20. #125
    On May 11th, 2009 at 10:41 am, mattm said:

    On May 8th, 2009 at 5:33 pm, shinola said:

    Broadband Connection – $49.95
    Photoshop CS4 – $499.00
    1 Google Image Search – “Statue of Liberty” – 10 min @ $120/hr = $20
    1 Google Image Search – “Air Force One” – 10 min @ $120/hr = $20
    15 minutes on Photoshop @ $120/hr = $30

    I’ll save you the $49.95 internet access and let you steal my WiFi if it will save us over 300K in tax dollars.

  21. #126
    On May 11th, 2009 at 10:46 am, SHoward said:

    In case you don’t know F-16 are single seated planes

    I hate to keep harping on this because there is a more important aspect to this story, BUT:

    The F-16B and F-16D are two-seat variants. There could have been an actual photographer in the back seat of one of those jets.

    (There probably wasn’t, hence the more important aspect.)

  22. #127
    On May 11th, 2009 at 10:48 pm, Eyas said:

    To those who merely “suspect” that Obama knew about the flight, here are two alternatives — the only two alternatives:

    1) Obama not only knew, and not only requested the flight — he PERSONALLY ordered it; OR
    2) A mid-level White House bureaucrat is able/allowed to order F-16s to fly when and where he likes, and for whatever reason.

    Take your pick.
    I’m not particularly happy with either choice, but nobody seems to be very concerned with the seriousness of the second option.

    (BTW, I’ll agree that WHMO Director is more than “mid-level” if anyone here can name the last two Directors, and can honestly say they knew who Caldera was before this stunt.)

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