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Off the list, but somehow on the South Lawn

These clowns need to see some serious jail time. This is BS.
 
chevydriver1123 said:
I thought state dinners with foreign leaders was customary?
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State dinners with foreign leaders is a completely different argument (still not sure I would agree to it tho). These people, and I imagin a large portion of those that attend such parties, do not fit into that catagory.
 
Accused White House party crashers insist: 'We were invited' -- latimes.com
Tareq Salahi, making his first television appearance since the dinner that President Obama hosted for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday, insisted in an interview on NBC's "Today" that the couple was cooperating with a Secret Service investigation of the matter and "the truth will come out."

Salahi, maintaining that, for his wife, Michaele, the experience had been "the most devastating thing that has ever happened," said today: "We're greatly saddened by all the circumstances ... portraying my wife and I as party crashers. I can tell you we did not party-crash the White House."

Insisting that there is more to the story of their appearance at Obama's first state dinner, Salahi maintained that the explanation will exonerate the couple from any allegations of misconduct.

"We were invited, not crashers," Michaele Salahi said, "and there isn't anyone who would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that. No one would do that and certainly not us."

Tareq Salahi, maintaining that he had e-mails that support his claim, said, "I am certain we will be completely exonerated."

Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said in a televised interview this morning that there was no way to view this incident other than as an unauthorized intrusion.

"This wasn't a misunderstanding," Gibbs said in an interview aired by MSNBC this morning. "You don't show up at the White House as a misunderstanding."
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I'll bet this is going to prove an Administration inside job. It will be an embarrasment for the President who's spokesmen will then throw the SS under the bus (which happened immediately anyway).

One or more staffers helped these people through security. And while the SS has to eat it, someone will quietly be dismissed from their staff position while the driveby media tries to ignore the details.
 
Can this administration do anything right without embarassing itself? LOL

Add this to the f-up list.
 
PeteEU said:
Er I agree, as I have stated even in the quote you pointed out. I am not the one saying that the Jeff Gannon situation was not similar to this.... I am in fact claiming that it is not the first time the SS screwed up and I would claim that the Jeff Gannon situation was far worse as it went on for 2 freaking years.
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Yet you took a completely moronic swipe at Bush.

Face it your Bush Derangement Syndrome took over yet again.

We actually believe Obama and Gibs that this couple wasn't invited and that the blame goes directly on the SS but you just couldn't help yourself could you?
 
PeteEU said:
And there is no freaking difference. In both situations the SS ****ed up and/or has idiotic procedures.
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You're just upset because yet once again your Messiah is shown to be the incompetent boob the people that didn't vote for him knew him to be.

Here's the difference:

A member of the press corps doesn't have the opportunity to shake hands with the Prez.



The closest analogy to the press corps incident would be the comical Shoe Thrower of Iraq. And no president has ever been killed by a size twelve.

The Messiah could have been stabbed with a glass knife before dinner, the intruders were that close. One lightning slash at the carotid and chances are high we'd be discussing President Plagiarizer's nominee for VP now.
 
So now the formerly irate Administration doesn't want to fully cooperate with an investigation into this;
Desiree Rogers, White House Social Secretary, Will Not Testify About Gatecrashing Salahis
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In addition, the White House is refusing to send its social secretary to the hearing, citing the separation of powers and a tradition of not having White House staff testify to Congress.
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Defending the decision not to let Rogers testify, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs cited the separation of powers and a history of White House staff not testifying before Congress. Gibbs also said the first family is "quite pleased" with Rogers' performance.

In the past, at state dinners and similar events, a member of the White House social office or other White House staff stood with the Secret Service as guests entered. No one from the White House was with the Secret Service on Nov. 24. There were no plans for a White House staff member to be there, and it was the Secret Service's responsibility to make sure the guests were on the approved list.

"After reviewing our actions, it is clear that the White House did not do everything we could have done to assist the United States Secret Service in ensuring that only invited guests enter the complex," White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina wrote in a memo Wednesday to the staff about the new procedures.
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