The US Secret Service is looking into how an uninvited couple penetrated several layers of security and entered a White House state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The Secret Service, in charge of White House security, is “conducting a comprehensive review of the incident which occurred at the White House State Dinner” late Tuesday, Special Agent in Charge Edwin Donovan told AFP.
“Initial findings identified a Secret Service checkpoint which did not follow proper procedures to ensure that the two individuals named in a Washington Post story were on the invited guest list,” Donovan said.
He emphasized that the couples “went through magnetometers and other levels of security, as did all guests attending the dinner.”
The Washington Post, which broke the story, identified the couple as Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who they described as aspiring reality TV stars from nearby northern Virginia.
The pair are in line to star on the television series The Real Housewives of Washington.
The couple went on to boast about their coup on a Facebook webpage, in which they appear in photos with Vice President Joe Biden, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and TV news anchor Katie Couric.
(Source: 9 News)
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And this is a government that’s protecting our country. Uh Huh.
Next time I’m hungry, I know where to go for a good meal. What’s the hechsher?
It was Halal food with the Hechsher of Sheikh Abumomzer Ibn Chara Khadi of Il Zbala Mosque
Prety good, but not as good as that baloon story would’ve been… This reality thing is getting out of hand….
#2 Is that a hechsher we can hold by? 🙂
The husband has a MUSLIM first and last name. He could be Pakistani, Afghan, or Arab.
I was actually there with my wife too, but they forgot to order our mehadrin meal, so we left. I had no problem getting in, just showed a bogus Al Jazeera press card I printed up on my computer.
#5 LOL
Wow. You guys sure like to profile! “Sounds like he’s Indian.” “The husband has a MUSLIM first and last name.” — Well, why don’t you check out some pictures of the guy. He’s whiter than you!
Honestly — if you guys Hate Obama and the Country so much, you should go back to Israel.
#9 “Mr. Johnson”
A) I didn’t see anyone write that they hate obama, but i would say that hating obama goes together with loving the country, not hating it.
B) How do you know the color of any of the commenters here when you say “He’s whiter than you”??? You know we have some rather dark skinned sefardic Jews reading this website.
C) Thanks for the suggestion about going back to Israel. Its a good one. I trust you will also be going back to where YOUR great grandparents came from!
10.#9 “Mr. Johnson.
Why are you such an angry person. I see that you roaming around few stories at YWN and place such negative posts. Do you have a cheap against the Jews on your shoulders? Please explain.
They came from the United States. Yours didn’t.
Do a search on Tarek Salahi. You will find out that he is on the board of The American Task Force for Palestine (ATFP). Use the cache as they took his name off the site.
He is a MUSLIM ARAB! Rashid Khalidi yms (Rosho Khalidi) is also whiter than I am and he is a MUSLIM ARAB!
Mr. Johnson,
In terms of the couple’s names “sounding Indian,” it seemed natural to assume so, since they were,after all, crashing a state dinner held in honor of…the prime minister of India.
Mr. Johnson, for your information, your ancestors didn’t come from the United States either.
I have an ancestor though that dates back to the United States starting in the 1790’s. Does that make me a Yankee Doodle Dandy enough?
What our idiot in Chief doesn’t realize is for all of his pandering and making nicey nice to all of the dictators in the world such as Chavez, King Abdullah, King Fahd, etc. the first one that terrorists would want to go after is him!
I guess with a nice Jewish sounding last name that I have I couldn’t have crashed the dinner no matter how many thousands of dollars I would have spent on my sheitel….
Mr. Johnson, I was going to tell you to take your hatred elsewhere. But then I realized that at least here, you can’t do any harm. Nobody agrees with you, as you can see by all the posts following yours.
So your great grandparents came from the United States? WOW – how amazing (sarcasm intended)– so did mine. But how far back does your American ancestry go? The Pilgrims, the Native American Indians? If the answer is no, then you have roots elsewhere as well!!
whats wrong with you ywn
No, NeveAliza
It didn’t occur to me, perhaps because I don’t have so much bottled-up hatred (and mental decay?) to assume that Joseph, for all his stridency and heavy-handed approach, is the same as an anti-Semitic bigot.
I think you need to partake in an anger management workshop. There’s one in the CR.
#18 You’re right. I certainly didn’t believe his name is really Mr. Johnson.
I would say, maybe he has an “Indian or Muslim sounding name”
How do you like that “Mr. Johnson”?
I see you haven’t been writing for a while. What’s the matter? Can’t think of good answers for us? Or are you gathering all this information and preparing some more hatred to spew at us?
Oh – #15 Flatbush Bubby – I like your title for Mr. obamanation “idot in chief”. Has a nice ring to it. I think I’ll start using it.
To #19 ANONYMOUS -(not I’m not yelling – I just wrote in caps to get your attention)
Maybe you’re the one who needs some anger management classes. Why are so so hostile towards NeveAliza? She didn’t sound angry to me. She was just speculating. Calm down – chill.
#12 – Mr. Johnson – You are right, mine didn’t. So, since you say yours came from the United States, you must be native American! What are you, Cherokee? Iriquois, Navajo?
Oh, I know where your ancestors are from… -Uranus.
#21-
Hostile? Your entire comment sounds like you’re hyperventilating- my goodness… Do you always tell others to “calm down-chill” when you’re shaking with passion?
There was no hostility in my comment; merely an observation regarding one who equated a anti-Semitic bigot with the ubiquitous Joseph. To equate an anti-Semite with a Jew with whom one disagrees, even vehemently, intimates lots of bottled up anger.
Take a deep breath, reflect a little, and jot down on your notepad that NeveAliza has previously informed us he is not a “she”. It is a place, not a person.
All the best…