>>3072301 all are lb
>>3071928
>>3072331
Inauguration photos controversy - the latest flap is that a UK newspaper claims that new details released by FOIA were not included in the IG report (big deal - what else is new? - no report ever covers 100% of a situation - stuff is always edited out that is deemed superfluous or excess or without firm basis - read the IG report at the link below - does anyone have any aerial photos or satellite photos that did not pass through the National Park Service or the MSM? - maybe some tourist shooting pix from the Washington Monument or somewhere?):
The CNN story said "A government photographer told investigators that he intentionally cropped photos of President Donald Trump's inauguration to remove empty space and make the audience look larger, according to newly released documents." It referenced a story in the UK Guardian, which in turn also referenced an IG report.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/06/donald-trump-inauguration-crowd-size-photos-edited
https://www.doioig.gov/sites/doioig.gov/files/AllegedQuestionableNPSActionsatInauguration_Public.pdf
The IG report found no wrongdoing, the National Park Service "Responded Appropriately to the President’s Request for Inauguration Photographs," and that "The NAMA Employee’s Personal Activities During the Inauguration Did Not Interfere with the Performance of His Duties."
The Guardian said "newly disclosed details were not included in the inspector general’s office’s final report on its inquiry into the saga" and that the "detail was revealed in investigative reports released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act by the inspector general of the US interior department."
---------------------
Here's the Guardian story (weblink shown above):
Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened
Exclusive: documents released to Guardian reveal government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’
Jon Swaine in New York
@jonswaine
Thu 6 Sep 2018 11.00 BST Last modified on Thu 6 Sep 2018 20.23 BST
A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump’s inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents.
The photographer cropped out empty space “where the crowd ended” for a new set of pictures requested by Trump on the first morning of his presidency, after he was angered by images showing his audience was smaller than Barack Obama’s in 2009.
The detail was revealed in investigative reports released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act by the inspector general of the US interior department. They shed new light on the first self-inflicted crisis of Trump’s presidency, when his White House falsely claimed he had attracted the biggest ever inauguration audience.
The records detail a scramble within the National Park Service (NPS) on 21 January 2017 after an early-morning phone call between Trump and the acting NPS director, Michael Reynolds. They also state that Sean Spicer, then White House press secretary, called NPS officials repeatedly that day in pursuit of the more flattering photographs.
It was not clear from the records which photographs were edited and whether they were released publicly.
The newly disclosed details were not included in the inspector general’s office’s final report on its inquiry into the saga, which was published in June last year and gave a different account of the NPS photographer’s actions.
By the time Trump spoke on the telephone with Reynolds on the morning after the inauguration, then-and-now pictures of the national mall were circulating online showing that Trump’s crowd fell short of Obama’s. A reporter’s tweet containing one such pair of images was retweeted by the official NPS Twitter account.
An NPS communications official, whose name was redacted in the released files, told investigators that Reynolds called her after speaking with the president and said Trump wanted pictures from the inauguration. She said “she got the impression that President Trump wanted to see pictures that appeared to depict more spectators in the crowd”, and that the images released so far showed “a lot of empty areas”.
The communications official said she “assumed” the photographs Trump was requesting “needed to be cropped”, but that Reynolds did not ask for this specifically. She then contacted the NPS photographer who had covered the event the day before.
[more at website]