State Dinner Party Crashers

LarryW · 11-25-2009, 21:37

Well, the beat just keeps on going. Even got their pics taken with the Dear Vice Pres and the Dear Chief of Stuff!

What an organization!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...9HhswD9C6V50G0

ZonieDiver · 11-25-2009, 22:15

She is "F-ing" HOT! I'd have let her in...

Sdiver · 11-26-2009, 00:10

There's going to be hell to pay with this one.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_state_...invited_guests

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Couple slips though security to crash state dinner

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.

Donovan confirmed the identities of the couple. The Washington Post, which first reported on their evening out, said the Salahis were well-known in the Virginia horse-country set and were being considered for the Bravo reality TV show "Real Housewives of D.C."

In an interview with the "CBS Early Show" in September, Michaele Salahi said, "President Obama has made it very accessible for anyone to visit the White House, so that's like a big thing right now."

The CBS interview was part of a segment on potential candidates for "Real Housewives of D.C." but never was aired.

The Secret Service learned about the security breach Wednesday after a media inquiry prompted by the Salahis' online boasts about having attended the private event, Donovan said.

One of the many photos from the dinner posted on Michaele Salahi's Facebook page shows the couple with a smiling Vice President Joe Biden. In other photos, they appear alone or together with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty, CBS News anchor Katie Couric, Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., and three Marines in their dress blues.

Donovan would not comment on whether the couple had been contacted by the Secret Service, how long they were on the White House grounds or other details of the investigation.

The Post said uninvited guests who got in could face a potential trespassing charge unless someone from inside the White House staff slipped them in.

Donovan would not comment on possible legal violations.

The agency's Office of Professional Responsibility was reviewing what occurred. An initial finding indicated that a checkpoint did not follow proper procedures to ensure the two were on the guest list, Donovan said.

"It's important to note that they went through all the security screenings — the magnetometer screening — just like all the other guests did," Donovan said. And, he added, Obama and others under Secret Service protection had their usual security details with them at the dinner.

Chris Cram · 11-26-2009, 01:43

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Originally Posted by ZonieDiver

She is "F-ing" HOT! I'd have let her in...

Yes, but what is she doing with Glenn Beck?

Utah Bob · 11-26-2009, 07:45

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Originally Posted by Chris Cram

Yes, but what is she doing with Glenn Beck?

He said she's hot....not smart.

Defend · 11-28-2009, 21:20

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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.

Maybe I'm stretching things a bit, but I'm wondering which guest-list they weren't on. The copy that the media was given or the official copy? If I'm understanding the tranliteration of this name correctly, I believe the first name is "Pathway" (common Muslim name) and last name is "One who prays". We'll see how this gets spun, but I still have my suspicions.

EDIT: So I decided to satisfy my curiosity. This gets more interesting than what I'm seeing from AP. First, I tried looking him up to get a home county to check a few records. No results. So I tried some common transliterations of what believe his name is in Arabic. I found one "Tarek Salehi" in VA, two addresses but only one phone number. I won't post it here since I can't confirm it is indeed the same individual. Whitepage search it if you want it. So, armed with a plausible secondary spelling and two possible addresses, I went to look his property in the Rockingham, VA county records. Strangely enough, none of the listed names or even the addresses given in the whitepages show up in the county records search. Coincidence? Maybe, I'm too far out there to accept that. But, it does get weirder.

Next, I run across this article from "Kabob Fest", calling him the "coolest Arab of the moment", and identifying him as part of the American Task Force on Palestine.

http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/11/tar...he-moment.html

As the article mentions, he has been removed from their site. I also found a blank page that dates back at least to NOV 4th with the heading "Tareq Salahi".

Lucky for us Google has quite the caching program. Here are links.

Tarek Salahi (profile page)

Listing of Board Members (from NOV 16, before he was removed), using "Tareq" spelling

-out

T-Rock · 11-29-2009, 05:18

What do the “party crashers” and Obama have in common? - Rashid Khalidi -
Someones not telling the truth....Obama knew the Salahis when he was still an Illinois senator. Tareq Salahi is a former member of The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP).

The below link is....well, interesting:

http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.co...5-salahis.html

Stealthed · 11-29-2009, 14:59

Who cares? A couple of socialites who want to be reality TV stars? Throw em' in the can...

The Secret Service should discipline whoever let these boneheads in...

kimberly · 11-29-2009, 15:40

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Originally Posted by T-Rock

What do the “party crashers” and Obama have in common? - Rashid Khalidi -
Someones not telling the truth....Obama knew the Salahis when he was still an Illinois senator. Tareq Salahi is a former member of The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP).

The below link is....well, interesting:

http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.co...5-salahis.html

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While the big gun media and American Secret Service are out there investigating “party crashers” Tareq and Michaele Salahi, no one’s telling the truth: Obama knew the Salahis when he was still an Illinois senator.

Polo Contacts Worldwide could make it easy for the investigating Secret Service by brown-enveloping them this picture ....

Interesting little detail for White House gumshoes: As the above photo was published in June 2005, Barack Obama was still Senator Obama and not the President Elect.

Obie is just FULL of surprises, isn't he. I'm wondering how many dems really understand what they did by voting for him.

**Team Sergeant** · 11-30-2009, 10:21

There is an up side to this story, there's going to be a whole lot of "Secret Service" job openings that the current administration can say they "helped create".

(I wonder if ACORN or SEIU can assist in filling these job openings?)

Team Sergeant

Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste.

incarcerated · 12-01-2009, 03:47

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17401

Did White House “Gatecrashers” Have Ties to Obama?

By Roger Aronoff
Monday, November 30, 2009
While the major media have bought the official storyline about the so called White House gatecrashers, could there be more to this scandal? The mainstream media have ignored obvious holes in the story and important facts about the alleged gatecrashers. Not only did they pose for a previous photo with Barack Obama, one of them, Tareq Salahi, has ties to some of the same radical Arab interests that backed Obama.

WorldNetDaily reports that Tareq Salahi served on the board of the American Task Force for Palestine (ATFP), where Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi served as vice president. Khalidi was a close friend and associate of Obama. Judi McLeod of the Canada Free Press has a Google cache identifying Tareq Salahi as a member of the ATFP....

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...rashing_s.html

Wanna-be TV duo Tareq and Michaele Salahi hunting for payday for party crashing story

BY Samuel Goldsmith and Tina Moore
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Sunday, November 29th 2009, 4:00 AM
The brazen White House party crashers met the President months before they waltzed into the A-list state dinner and now they're seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for their story.

A photograph from an America's Polo Cup party in May shows Tareq and Michaele Salahi hobnobbing with President Obama, Randy Jackson and the Black Eyed Peas.

The photo was taken during Tareq Salahi's America's Polo Cup fashion show - known as Rockin' the Runway, the Huffington Post reported....

Photo caption:
Michaele Salahi (far r.) poses with 'American Idol' judge Randy Jackson (l.), Fergie and other members of the Black Eyed Peas, Micheale's husband Tareq, and, of course, President Obama.

LongWire · 12-01-2009, 05:25

Yo yo yo, you see it's like this dawg..........as Randy would say......

What a devious web we weave................

Ret10Echo · 12-01-2009, 07:17

It just keeps getting better....

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Defense official communicated with WH crashers
December 1, 2009

EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.

Full story here

Richard · 12-01-2009, 08:01

Maybe they get a thrill out of crashing parties and then making whoopee on the guest's fur coats in the cloak room.

IMO - the only issue here should be how the hell they got by the SS and into the WH at a Presidential affair without a confirmed invitation - heads should roll for that one.

Richard's jaded $.02

LongWire · 12-01-2009, 08:10

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Originally Posted by Richard

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IMO - the only issue here should be how the hell they got by the SS and into the WH at a Presidential affair without a confirmed invitation
Richard's jaded $.02

An apparent oversight? They had a Arabic last name.......What???