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 Tuesday’s 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.”
I've been wondering about that myself.
She (It) appears to have an Adam's apple and couple that with a totally flat chest.....?
Can someone photoshop that with a Tiger Woods Nike golf club over her head?
What is that brown stuff on Katie Courics nose?...Did Obama stop suddenly while she was in his midst?
I also seem to recall a story about someone on Obama’s Secret Service detail, very close in, resigning a while back. It was hushed up very quickly and there were no details about.
I just don't believe it possible they walked up and BS’sd their way in.
Lets hope not.
I smell a SET-UP!! The SS has wanted more money.
They were looking for Barry’s birth certificate.
I believe he was the head SS man at the WH. Therefore, we are seeing the results...boy oh boy what a bunch of amateurs...
Exactly so. The lesson there is never talk to the police or a Federal agent. There’s a great law school lecture on that subject on YouTube.
“They can plead down to theft by deception if they ate or drank anything.”
Good luck with that. Face it any charges against them would only make this situation worse.
Forget these losers. Our enemies have taken note and would love to duplicate this.
love though that they duped the couric, emmanuel, biden and whomever else.
Did EVERYONE wear a Sari???? Why not just a beautiful evening gown????
Dont count on it...this story along with countless postings and about Tiger Woods practically on the eve of the Copenhagen Summit are nothing but PURE circus entertainment designed to keep us little people focused on “the really important issues.” (Oh, were his injuries caused by his wife or the accident? Is that a Versace she’s wearing to meet the President?).
I expect these attention-whoring sots to milk it for all its worth: next, a pump through the talk show circuit...maybe Oprah, Larry King, etc., then a six figure book contract and possibly a movie deal or a new his and her’s line of designer fragrances. Come’on America, you KNOW you love a winner! Team Edward or Team Jacob?...the World needs to know where you stand on the really IMPORTANT questions..
Look for non stop media coverage of both these NON-EVENTS to continue full force this week as the web and airwaves become saturated with talking heads spinning on and on about this meaningless CRAP...all the while the freedom of our country is abdicated to a World Government solely on the basis of the FRAUD SCIENCE of GW.
Seems like purveyors of popular culture must believe we really have NO LIFE, given our gluttonous hunger for celebrity worship and our dis-proportianal fascination with inconsequential trivia, and perhaps they are correct. FTR, I HATE popular culture.
In magic, it’s called “sleight of hand” and it’s designed specifically to FOOL people. In politics, it’s called, “bread and circuses.”
I would of sent Her a thank You note
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