Revisiting the “Chipmunk in the Small Chair” Photo One Year Later – Was it Staged or Real?

In 2011 the White House released this photo of the administration’s security team watching the raid on the Osama compound in Abbottabad. Obama had reportedly just made it back from the golf course before the photo was taken.
The iconic picture is now famously referred to as the chipmunk in the small chair photo.

(White House website)

Shortly after the release of the photo, a Swedish paper made the observation that the photo was manipulated and Obama looks like a midget in the chair despite his six-foot-plus stature.

One year later there are still questions on the authenticity of the photo. Mara Zebest has more at American Thinker.

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