Shirtless Obama Causes Drama!

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.