Wow! So who crashed the party last night?

[cherokeeprogressive]

I just heard on ABC's national news that "two Washington area socialites" who were not on the guest list were allowed into the state dinner last night. There was video of them walking in, and then pictures of them with the VP and Rahm.

WHAT. THE. FUCK? Cause for concern? It is for me, considering that I've heard a thousand times here that threats against President Obama are orders of magnitude higher than those of past presidents.

The Secret Service says it's "looking into the report". I fucking hope so!

[tekisui]

1. These two:

From last night.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. How much of a socialite can you really be if you're reduced to crashing parties?

Either you're in the Blue Book (D.C.) or you're not.

[AllentownJake]

3. State Dinner crashers?

I'm sure like any other event, the rank and file go through metal detectors.

[Robb]

4. ...

[Blue_Tires]

9. they would have made the party AWESOME unlike that publicity-hungry couple..

[high density]

5. Let's send them quickly to gitmo

sounds like terrorists, i am ascared.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. You can whistle past the graveyard if you like.

I won't. I don't think the party crashers should be punished. Someone should be answering questions about why uninvited guests can get into the same room with the President of the United States, then they should be fired.

This is unacceptable.

[Bumblebee]

10. I agree

[Dinger]

14. And Someone SHould Be Fired

No excuses for this serious breach of security. This is no joke, and NO WAY should these two be rewarded with a reality show.

[question everything]

6. Tareq and Michaele Salahi - aspiring reality TV stars

A couple of aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia appear to have crashed the White House’s state dinner Tuesday night, penetrating layers of security with no invitation to mingle with the likes of Vice President Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Tareq and Michaele Salahi — polo-playing socialites known for a bitter family feud over a Fauquier County winery and their possible roles in the forthcoming “The Real Housewives of Washington” — were seen arriving at the White House and later posted on Facebook photos of themselves with VIPs at the elite gathering.

“Honored to be at the White House for the state dinner in honor of India with President Obama and our First Lady!” one of them wrote on their joint Facebook page at 9:08 p.m.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34157390/ns/politics-washington_post/

[Cha]

8. Thanks, well, hopefully this is

an easy lesson on security..and not some invitation to others to try the same thing with bad intentions.

[sunnybrook]

13. Balloon Dad is kicking himself in the ass for this one!

If only he could have thought of this!

[GCP]

11. This worries me

I don't care that they 'got through magnetomemters' etc, there's plenty of people know how to make plastic shivs, you just need to get close enough to the president, say for a photo-op, and you could do some real damage.

[Kdillard]

12. I agree with an assessment I read in an article about the problem

Stemming from 2003 when the Secret Service was folded into Homeland Security.