POLITICAL NONSENSE

FOLLOW-UP: THE WHITE HOUSE RELEASED THE PHOTO OF AIR FORCE ONE . . . TAKEN DURING THE FLYOVER SCARE IN NEW YORK LAST MONTH:

Remember the whole Air Force One photo-op debacle last month? (--If you don't know what I'm talking about, last month, the White House Military Office decided to take some photos of Air Force One flying over Manhattan. But they kept the photo-op a secret, and residents of New York freaked out when they saw an airplane . . . followed by two F-16 fighter jets . . . flying low over the city, and thought we were under attack by terrorists.)

Anyway, on Friday the White House released its official photo of Air Force One . . . which was taken during the flyover. And that same day, the guy who authorized the photo-op . . . Louis Caldera, who's the director of the White House Military Office . . . resigned from his job.

In his resignation letter to PRESIDENT OBAMA, Caldera wrote that the controversy surrounding the picture has made it impossible for him to do his job and, "has become a distraction in the important work you are doing as president."

Overall, the photo of Air Force One cost taxpayers $328,000. (CBS News 2 - New York)