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...

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

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.