Do You Think That Louis Caldera Should Have Been Fired Over the Ground Zero Flyover Incident?
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2009/05/08 21:08:39
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White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One
By Kenneth R. Bazinet
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
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.
Federal officials notified Mayor Bloomberg's office and NYPD officials in advance, but Bloomberg was not informed, infuriating the mayor.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/08/2009-05-0...
By Kenneth R. Bazinet
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
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.
Federal officials notified Mayor Bloomberg's office and NYPD officials in advance, but Bloomberg was not informed, infuriating the mayor.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/05/08/2009-05-0...
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TexanInHawaii 2009/05/08 22:11:18
I don't know anything about this guy, but I question why it never crossed his mind what the results of this decision would do to the people of New York. Either he is very inconsiderate or very stupid.