Secret picture that could have cost Obama the presidency

Photojournalist Askia Muhammad released a photo this week showing Obama and the controversial Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, from Obama's years as a state senator -- and the photographer revealed Thursday that the Congressional Black Caucus had pressured him for more than a decade to keep it hidden.





Muhammad told the Trice Edney News Wire last week that he believed that the image “absolutely would have made a difference” in the 2008 presidential campaign had it been made public. .

The image taken in 2005 at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill showed then-Senator Obama, a young Democrat from Illinois, smiling side-by-side with Farrakhan. Muhammad told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that the same day he snapped the photo, the CBC contacted him. .

“A staff member from the black caucus called me and said ‘we have to have the picture back,’ and I was kind of taken aback. And we talked a couple of times on the phone after that, and I said ‘Okay, I will give the picture back to Minister Farrakhan’s chief of staff,’” he said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” .

He added that after he gave the original copy to Farrakhan’s staff, he kept his own copy but remained quiet. “I gave the original disk to him and in a sense swore myself to secrecy because I had quietly made a copy for myself,” Muhammad said. .

“It’s my picture, it’s my art, and it’s my intellectual property. I owned it and I wanted to keep it.” He said the CBC called him while he was still on Capitol Hill and he believed that it was because “they sensed the future.” .

“Minister Farrakhan and his reputation would hurt someone trying to win acceptance in the broad cross-section,” he said, referring to the possibility at the time that the young senator was being considered for a presidential run. .

Muhammad also said that Obama had, at some point, people from the Nation of Islam working on his staff and in his offices.

Source: Foxnews
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