Web site removes photo of Bush daughter
                    The Dallas Morning Whore
 

                    FORT WORTH – A picture of President Bush's daughter Jenna at a
                    fraternity party has been removed from the Web site of the company
                    hired to take photos at the weekend event, The Associated Press reported.

                    The picture of the 19-year-old, flanked by five Texas Christian University
                    students, was posted for several days with hundreds of other photos taken at
                    the Sigma Alpha Epsilon bash near campus Saturday night. The AP saw the
                    photo on Thursday and noticed it was not there on Friday.

                    Flash Photography always posts pictures after events so students can
                    order them easily, but owner Rick Strong declined to comment on why
                    the Bush picture was missing Friday. The picture also had been removed
                    from rolls of prints at the store.

                    "I really can't say, but our main goal is providing a service to the students
                    and protecting them," he said.

                    Melissa Blanton and other TCU students said they saw Ms. Bush
                    escorted by Secret Service agents at the party. TCU freshman William
                    Ashe Bridges, who later was arrested and charged with minor in
                    possession of alcohol and public intoxication after police raided the bash,
                    is in the picture with Ms. Bush, several students confirmed.

                    White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said the president's
                    administration had nothing to do with the picture's removal.

                    "To my knowledge, there was no contact of any kind" with the photo
                    company, she said Friday.

                    Noelia Rodriguez, spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush, said the
                    White House is not making any comment on "this incident."

                    "As the daughter of a president, she is afforded Secret Service
                    protection. And she is not a public figure; she is a private citizen."

                    Officials wouldn't comment on Jenna Bush's whereabouts the night in question.

                    Pictures on Flash Photography's Web site are accessible only to students
                    who attend an event. Mr. Strong said photos can be bought only by
                    students who are in them, but even those in the picture with Ms. Bush
                    probably could not purchase it. He declined to elaborate.

                    Mr. Strong said his employee who snapped the photo didn't realize Ms.
                    Bush was at the Mardi Gras party until several days later.

                    It's unclear whether Ms. Bush, who attends the University of Texas at
                    Austin, was in the house when law officers arrived after receiving complaints
                    of noise and beer bottles in the street. But she was not arrested, said Sgt. Charlie
                    Cloud, a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission spokesman.

                    Mr. Bridges, an 18-year-old who graduated with Ms. Bush from Stephen F.
                    Austin High School in 2000, said he was Ms. Bush's boyfriend and allegedly
                    called her from jail early Sunday morning, said Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson.

                    He said no one asked for special treatment for Mr. Bridges, who was
                    released under standard procedure four hours later and picked up by a
                    man that jail personnel believe was a Secret Service agent.

                    A deputy saw a woman in the vehicle, a black Chevrolet Suburban with Virginia
                    license plates, but was not sure whether it was Ms. Bush, Sheriff Anderson said.
 

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