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Did Third White House State Dinner Crasher Know the Salahis?
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe third crasher of the White House's state dinner for the Prime Minister of India in November may be connected to reality television show aspirants Tareq and Michaele Salahi who are the subjects of a criminal probe into how they wrangled their way into the party. ...
Who Else Crashed Obama's State Dinner?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Jan. 5) -- Tareq and Michaele Salahi weren't the only ones who got into the state dinner at the White House without an invitation. The Secret Service confirms there was a third party crasher. But the man accused of the security breach denies it was him. A congressional source told The Washington Post that Carlos Allen, a party promoter in the nation's capital, was the uninvited guest. A statement from the Secret Service did not identify the crasher but said he got into the White House with the official Indian delegation to the Nov. 24 dinner honoring that country's prime minister. "I did ...
Chaos Theory - White House Gate-Gate
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3rd Uninvited Guest Got Into White House Dinner
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 4) - A third uninvited guest made his way into the White House state dinner for India's prime minister in November, the Secret Service said Monday. As the Secret Service was reviewing how an attention-hungry couple - Tareq and Michaele Salahi - got into the dinner without being on the guest list, officials discovered that a third person made it through security without an invitation as well. The Secret Service said the man - whom they would not identify - did not get close to the president or the first lady. The Washington Post, citing an anonymous congressional source, ...
Feds Probe Obama Effigy in Jimmy Carter's Hometown
By not in system - AOL NewsPLAINS, Ga. (Jan. 3) -- The U.S. Secret Service says it is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told The Associated Press that the large black doll was found Saturday morning along Main Street in the small town of Plains. Footage from WALB-TV shows the doll was hanging by a noose in front of a red, white and blue sign that says "Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President." A witness told the station that the doll had a sign with Obama's name on ...
In Defense of Desiree Rogers
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyOn Nov. 24, 2008, Desiree Rogers was tapped by then President-elect Barack Obama to be the new White House Social Secretary, working in an office of the East Wing overseen by First Lady Michelle Obama. The night before the announcement, Rogers and Mrs. Obama dined privately at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, where they worked out the final details of the position that would transplant Rogers -- a fixture in Chicago's business, social, and political circles -- into the highest profile job of her life. ...
The Secret Service Has Been Embarrassed Before
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsWASHINGTON – The Salahis were hardly the first to embarrass the Secret Service by crashing presidential security. And it will probably happen again. One man did it twice. The Rev. Rich C. Weber shook hands with President Clinton at his second inauguration, then was back four years later in 2001, welcoming President George W. Bush with a brief conversation. There were also more frightening incidents -- a man who hopped the White House gate with a .38-caliber revolver and got within 50 feet of the residence. Another man crashed a plane into the White House. But until Tareq and Michaele ...
Obama Says He Trusts Secret Service '100 Percent'
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyPresident Obama says he has full confidence in the Secret Service despite last month's security breach at the White House, where an uninvited couple crashed a state dinner. In a joint interview Thursday with USA Today and the Detroit Free Press, Obama acknowledged "the system didn't work the way it was supposed to" but the incident hasn't shaken his trust in the men and women charged with protecting him and his family. "I could not have more confidence in the Secret Service," the president said. "They do an outstanding job. They have been with me since I was a candidate. I trust them 100 ...
Desiree Rogers Will Skip Hearing; New White House Social Guidelines
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Should the Salahis Be Punished?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Dec. 2) - Some people are so upset about Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashing the White House State Dinner that they want the publicity-hungry socialites prosecuted. While there's new evidence that they weren't invited, it's not clear whether they did anything illegal. The Salahis were not on the guest list for last week's party, according to the White House and Secret Service. And although they've said they believed they were invited, newly released e-mails undercut the couple's claim. News that they were escorted out of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's awards dinner a month ago ...
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