Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-25-09 10:20 PM
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Couple slips though security to crash state dinner
Source: AP
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.
Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j6d6qfdty31MdqSKzV9j0w-9HhswD9C6URSG0
CNN reporting on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNvxKtk-tLA&feature=sub
Froward69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 10:02 AM
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23. pictures aparantly... (Link)
Edited on Thu Nov-26-09 10:04 AM by Froward69
on facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125305&id=101907941877
the one with her hand on Joe Biden is funny.
SS needs to step up! as these two could have just as well have been some RW Freak bent upon "restoring our Republic"... ::)
Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-25-09 11:12 PM
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5. Too bad her next appearance won't be on The Housewives of Guantanamo Bay
Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-25-09 11:41 PM
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9. Sorry, Agent Mike, but I don't think Secret Service is trying very hard.
I've been thinking that since Secret Service forced local law enforcement to stop making guests go through metal detectors when Obama was on the campaign trail.
onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 01:12 AM
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14. Jail them. Throw away the key.
Just for being reality show ****s, at a minimum.
Algorem (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 08:32 AM
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21. he donated $600 to George Allen
(followed by donation data and link to newsmeat.com}
Had this happened during the Bush administration, the DUmmies would be in full ridicule mode. Hypocrites.
Some of the comments in the whole thread are funny, but for the most part these people aren't happy with what has got to be the world's second greatest prank - the first being Global Warming...
SS needs to step up! as these two could have just as well have been some RW Freak bent upon "restoring our Republic"
I have to admit it, I am pretty damn impressed. How dumb did they Obama and Biden feel, I wonder?
Biden's probably used to it. My guess would be that Obama is too self-centered to notice anything that happens further from him than the tip of his nose.
You can bet he's pissed to no end for having the SS make him look look a toal asswipe! IMHO, I'm not so sure the SS didn't do this "accidently on purpose", seein' how much O'Bumbler loves America, the military, us grunts, and his security detail. After all, does he not give us his utmost respect?
She's not too bad looking.
I've heard that both the Obamessiah and Shell-O are rather polite to their SS details. Still, I can see someone thinking, "Dems in general need a lesson here."
Name tags at the tables, they had to have known that for some reason 2 of the invited would not be able to make it and had someone place their names at the seats of the absent couple.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-26-09 10:13 AM
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25. The SS assures us that there was no danger because they went through a weapons screening
Do those "screenings" pick up exotic plastic explosives molded to a miscreant's body?
Just sayin' ......
The fact is, they f**ked up BIG time.
Especially from someone with a name like Tariq Salahi.
(http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/salahi_monster_397x224.jpg)(http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID22153/images/michaele-Salahi-facebook-com-white-house-pics-photos-joe-biden.jpg)