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SHIRTLESS OBAMA CAUSING DRAMA: People are wondering how a photographer was able to bypass security to get the shot.(December 24, 2008)
*Barack Obama isn't the first presidential figure to be photographed shirtless, and likely won't be the last. He is, however, the most physically-toned U.S. leader since JFK to be caught on camera bare-chested. But inquiring minds want to know how the photographer from Bauer-Griffin – the same California-based agency who caught Halle Berry on a movie set this month at the precise moment of her wardrobe malfunction – was able to get the exclusive shot despite an army of security surrounding the beach resort where the president-elect is vacationing with his family. Bauer-Griffin co-owner Frank Griffin said his photographer did absolutely nothing wrong. "He had his equipment searched by the secret service and was restricted to a certain area of the beach," just like the other photographers, "before the president-elect walked into his view about a hundred yards away," Griffin told CNN. "There was tacit approval that he was able to shoot what he could shoot, it's a public beach," Griffin told the Washington Post, adding that his snapper was not asked to leave the public beach from where he spotted Obama. The prez-elect struttin' his stuff in Hawaii:
Other shots on the Bauer Griffin Web site www.bauergriffinonline.com show wife Michelle Obama with their daughters Malia and Sasha, apparently heading back to their vacation lodgings after a swim. Related story: Listing for Obama's $9 Million Vacation Retreat gets yanked
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