Party Crashers Met Briefly With Obama...I think there is a lot more going on here

[Laura]

The controversy over state dinner crashers, Michael and Tareq Salahi, has prompted the White House to order a "full review" of the incident to find out how the Secret Service allowed such a security breach


Nov. 24, 2009: President Barack Obama greets Michaele and Tareq Salahi during a receiving line in the Blue Room of the White House before the State Dinner with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India.

A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

The controversy over state dinner crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, has prompted the White House to order a "full review" of the incident to find out how the Secret Service allowed such a security breach.

The White House said Friday it supported the Secret Service and its employees -- but also demanded answers.

"The White House asked the United States Secret Service to do a full review and they are doing that," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said. "The United States Secret Service said they made a mistake and they are taking action to identify exactly what happened and they will take the appropriate measures pending the results of their investigation."

The White House has insisted that the Salahis were not invited to Tuesday's dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, despite contrary claims by the couple and their lawyer.


"We have identified that a checkpoint of ours did not verify that these individuals were on the invite list," Jim Mackin, a Secret Service spokesman, told FoxNews.com. "The matter is currently being investigated."

Secret Service agents also met with the couple for questioning Friday at an undisclosed location in Virginia, the New York Post reported.

Mackin said the Secret Service was considering turning the probe into a criminal investigation.

"As this moves closer to a criminal investigation there’s less that we can say," Mackin told the New York Post. "I don’t want to jeopardize what could be a criminal investigation. We are not leaving any option off the table at this point."

Some guests at Tuesday's dinner have already been interviewed in connection to the investigation, said Mackin.

The Secret Service has said President Obama was never in danger at the dinner, but declined to comment on whether anyone was screened for radiological or biological weapons.

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan issued a statement Saturday, saying his agency took responsibility for the error.

"The preliminary findings of our internal investigation have determined established protocols were not followed at an initial checkpoint, verifying that two individuals were on the guest list," Sullivan said. "Although these individuals went through magnetometers and other levels of screening, they should have been prohibited from entering the event entirely. That failing is ours."

Sullivan said the agency that protects the president is "deeply concerned and embarrassed" that procedures were not followed.

Meanwhile, Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., has called for a congressional hearing into the "shocking breach of security" at the White House dinner.

"As ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Secret Service, I am calling for a full investigation of how this shocking breach of security was allowed to happen and what is being done to make that it never happens again," King said in a statement released Friday.

Sounds like a white house set up to me, this entire thing is a joke

[Lisa Mei Norton]

There is NO WAY anyone could get through our Secret Service that easily...not with his plummeting popularity...His Secret Service has one heck of a tough job and you know darn well THEY know their jobs are toast if they screw up....Something seriously stinks about this...as well as everything else that goes on with this administration...I can only PRAY the truth comes out...and some VERY HIGH LEVEL involvement gets exposed...which, of course, will only be covered by Fox News.

[Laura]

Exactly, I think this entire thing was a deliberate attempt for ObamaDingDong to use another new diversion and manipulation for his agenda

[Ponygal]

They are desperate for diversions. The W-H is pulling at straws. Besides, without reporting the truth of what's really going on with B-O and our country, mainstream media needs some news to report. They've already cut down on their news hours. If they keep it up, they will even start reporting on cats stuck up trees that need rescuing.

[Laura]

they will even start reporting on cats stuck up trees that need rescuing.

ROTF!!!

[Laura]

I think you are spot on Cheryl. He wants to change everything about America for his own personal marxist/Islam goals, so he needs to disband every single agency that would jeopardize and deviate his plan.

[NewSentinel]

Gosh, all your comments are very interesting! I've become as cynical as you, so I don't put anything past the Obamawamas. The FBI doesn't seem to care about Islamic Jihadists like Nidal Hasan making threats and the CIA seems to have vanished into thin air. When was the last time anyone saw Leon Penetta (sorry, probably misspelled his name) after Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA of lying to Congress? Remember that? Leon made a couple of iddy bitty protests and then quickly evaporated!

So, why is hard to believe that the Obamawamas would try to make the Secret Service look inept, no longer "up to the job" and, therefore, ought to be replaced by . . . hmmmm? Wonder who the Obamawamas want to replace the Secret Service? Any wild guesses?

[Laura]

Americorps

[Janet L Besanceney]

Black Panthers

[Cheryl Ebersohl]

Gee, there are so many choices in this administration! :>)

[Laura]

It's probably all of them meshed in together