Posted on 11/28/2009 1:02:58 PM PST by Schnucki
WASHINGTON: This time, the picture is the story. After the Secret Service insisted that US president Barack Obama was never endangered by a security breach that allowed a couple to crash his first state dinner, the White House has released a photo showing that not only did the pair get close to Obama, they actually shook hands and talked to him.
The revelation underscored the seriousness of the security breach and prompted an abject apology from the Secret Service.
A White House spokesman said that the couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi of Virginia, met and shook hands with the president and the first lady in the receiving line in the Blue Room, as the Obamas greeted each of their 400 invited guests on Tuesday night before moving to a tent on the South Lawn for dinner. That disclosure coincided with a statement from the director of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, saying that his agency was deeply concerned and embarrassed by the events. Secret Service officials said the agency wanted to interview everyone connected with the episode, including the Salahis, and had not ruled out criminal charges.
Secret Service on Friday acknowledged that its officers never checked whether the two were on the guest list before letting them onto the White House grounds. The Salahis were not on the guest list and should have been barred from entering last Tuesdays dinner on the White House South Lawn for the Prime Minister of India, said Sullivan.
Although these individuals went through magnetometers and other levels of screening, they should have been prohibited from entering the event entirely, Sullivan said. That failing is ours.
He’s Palestinian00on the American Task Force for Palestine.
Frustrating isn’t it?...kinda like being in a bad dream where you want to scream, but you try and try and try, only to have nothing come out...
“They broke into the White House “
No, they waited in line and asked for admittance.
“and lied to federal agents “
How? And why is lying to a federal agent against the law? other than under oath of course.
“they could have killed everyone”
They were searched for weapons but ‘could haves’ are not and should never be against the law.
“but Obama’s President of the United States and the SS needs to protect him”
Yes they do. The failure of the SS is not the responsibility of these two people.
I just thought of another charge: defiant trespass.
And...
For her: wearing a dress that is uglier than Michelle’s.
For him: shaking hands under the influence of Dom Perignon.
I have heard that this is close to what has been done.
I think that is exactly what this is about. Laying the groundwork for a new Praetorian Guard (like SEIU / ACORN agents with badges and guns).
What did you hear??
You still haven’t answered the question, why is lying to a ‘federal agent’ a crime?
The reason it doesn't make sense is because someone let them in to embarrass the secret service in the first place, and to give these two anti-semetic, pro-Palestinian zeros fame. Just guessing, but it sounds exactly like something slippers Emanual or the zero himself would do. Strange how this story just won't go away.
That he replaced existing agents with ones that he was more comfortable with.
When one starts picking and choosing based on preference rather than competence the overall quality suffers.
I think she looks pretty good for 62.
Maybe Ubama "reorganized" the Secret Service and brought in his own homies from Chicago, courtesy of Louis Farrakhan?
This is Obama’s vision of the future of the Secret Service:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXd8iH3OVQ
I should have mentioned, that it would fit with Obama’s level of professionalism.
Is anybody sure that the couple really hadn’t been checked and they aren’t being thrown under the bus, along with the SS? It wasn’t above the Clintons to treat the hired help as trash.
Bunch of fatass idiot failures.
See Kristinn’s report on the real responsible person...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396113/posts?page=20#20
That person is the one who should be thrown out of the Obama White House for this egregious security breach.
The Secret Service are taking responsibility for it - but this lady did not follow usual practices for her position and this was the result. She ought to be fired, but I won’t hold my breath.
“idiot failures.”
They are young, we hope they won’t be failures. But that type of brainwashing certainly won’t help their chances.
Unless they can get a million miles away from this militant black supremest B.S. they don’t stand a chance.
What do you think the odds are of this?
That is scary, but altogether possible under the Obama regime.
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