Posted on 11/30/2009 10:07:55 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
The couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner communicated with a senior Pentagon official about going to the event, but the official denies that she helped the couple get in.
Michele Jones, a special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said in a written statement issued through the White House on Monday evening that she never said or implied she would get Michaele and Tareq Salahi into the Nov. 24 White House dinner.
"I specifically stated that they did not have tickets and in fact that I did not have the authority to authorize attendance, admittance or access to any part of the evening's activities," Jones said. "Even though I informed them of this, they still decided to come."
This is the latest twist in the unfolding mystery of how the two reality show wannabes managed to get into the highly secured event and shake hands with President Barack Obama. Also on Monday, a House committee chairman asked the couple, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan and White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers to testify at a hearing Thursday on the incident.
In a similar incident a month before, the Salahis sneaked in through a back entrance to a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Awards dinner at which Obama spoke. A guest complained that the couple didn't belong at his table.
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So, have we found someone for Obama to throw under the bus?
Or was someone at the WH in on some cheesy TV charade?
What does Rohm Emmaneul have to say? (as if anyone cares). Where's that dude been, anyway?
This entire story seems like such a fabricated distraction.
I guess they figured if the Obamas can do it, they can. Equal opportunity and all.
Others here have called 'em "grifters." I think they ought to get a Nobel for something.
bwahahah!
Obama is the King of reality TV. MTV couldn’t write a better script.
So a couple of tax payers attended a dinner at a public building hosted by public servants paid for by tax dollars and got in trouble?
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