Secret Service Says Couple Crashed State Dinner

Foxnews ^ | 11/26/2009 | Staff

[Red in Blue PA]

WASHINGTON - Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve.

The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, managed to slip into Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House even though they were not on the guest list, agency spokesman Ed Donovan said.

President Barack Obama was never in any danger because the party crashers went through the same security screening for weapons as the 300-plus people actually invited to the dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Donovan said.

[browniexyz]

We are supposed to believe that Arabs named “salahi” CRASHED the dinner? There is something wrong with this story — and not just with the fact that someone slipped by the Secret Service. They must be agents.

[Red in Blue PA]

Biden: "Anyone see Chuck?"

[IbJensen]

Tareq Salahi

There must be some mistake here. Anyone named Tareq would be welcomed by America's first muslim president.

[lowbridge]

Michaele and Tareq Salahi

Not to worry, it was only a test run.

[1776 Reborn]

Shit, it would have been easier to maintain a list who wasn’t invited to this thing.

[Red in Blue PA]

Amazing these types of breaches never happened under Bush!

[Past Your Eyes]

Like when the shark bumps on the first pass.

[Paratrooper]

This is great! They got in because of their names! This was a PC move by the couple...the SS wouldn’t dare challenge them crashing the party for fear they would be profiling!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Well, we could be bitterly sarcastic and say, since this new White House refuses to say anything about us as a nation still being in a global hot war on Islamofascism which started on 9-11-01, then apparantly security can be relaxed at various places like the White House because of the end of the war, and therefore we are not on a war footing, what's the big deal? /sarc

Idiots.

[This_far]

First couple lose their wrist bands?

[StandUpChuck]

President Barack Obama was never in any danger because the party crashers went through the same security screening for weapons as the 300-plus people actually invited to the dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Donovan said.

I am assuming they ate with sporks because there are never any knives present at a dinner party , now are there?

[Angry_White_Man_Syndrome]

I wonder if security is getting lax due to the way the security details are being treated. Let's see, piss off the CIA, criminally prosecute Navy SEALS, and give terrorists a public platform to disclose our interrogation techniques. Nah, that won't piss off agents that truly love their country.

[cripplecreek]

These aren’t radical muslims, they’re well known DC socialites. Minimal digging on the net tells me that they’ve been part of the DC social scene for years.

[Red in Blue PA]

Shouldn’t matter who they are. Not on the list? Should not pass the first screen.

Period.

[Uncle Ike]

” I am assuming they ate with sporks because there are never any knives present at a dinner party , now are there? “

Remember the ‘butt bomber’ in Saudi Arabia a couple of months ago??

I kinda doubt that the ‘security screenings’ were *that* thorough.... ;)

[paulycy]

Did these particular Security agents graduate from those public schools that taught that “there are no wrong answers?”

FAIL.

[Uncle Ike]

” These aren’t radical muslims, they’re well known DC socialites. “

Yeah - and Hasan was a well known Walter Reed Army Psychiatrist....

Just sayin’...

[Red in Blue PA]

[MajorThomas]