Back in 2005 , journalist Askia Muhammad snapped a photo of Obama smiling alongside Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan during a Congressional Black Caucus meeting .
But he was forced to give it up at the time and not mention a word of it in case it damaged Obama’ s political future .
Muhammed , who revealed the photo on Thursday , told the Truce Edney News Wire that he ‘ basically swore secrecy ’ for the photo.
At the time , Obama was Illinois Senator and the photo was kept a secret until he secured the Democratic nomination to run for president .
Muhammed said it was then kept that way ‘ all the way up until the inauguration . Then for eight years after he was president, it was kept under cover.
“ It absolutely would have made a difference.”
He said a CBC employee had called him ‘in a panic ’ after he took the photo and immediately realised what was going on .
He gave up the picture to Leonard Farrakhan , the minister’ s son - in- law and chief of staff, but not before copying the photograph that day onto a computer file .
The journalist said: “ Realising that I had given it up, I mean, it was sort of like a promise to keep the photograph secret. ”
Farrakhan has previously made Anti- Semitic remarks in the past , resulting in Obama having to denounce them in a 2008 presidential debate in Cleveland .
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