Further on the Matter of the Party Crashers: An Open Letter to the Secret Service [UPDATED]


There are exactly two heartbeats in the world that separate Nancy Pelosi from the Oval Office, and both of their owners were at Tuesday's state dinner. A scary thought, that.

[UPDATE: It turns out that the Salahis had contact with President Obama. Oy vey.]

Dear Sirs:

I expect better of you. Seriously. Even if, as some have suggested, this is a put-up deal, it can’t help but reflect poorly on the reputation and performance of your fine Service, which has provided a century and a half of efficient professionalism and security to the nation.

Couple slips though security to crash White House state dinner

Let me be direct. My plans for November 2012 include voting against Barack Obama for the Office of the Presidency. Your #1 job is keeping the man safe until then. Safe, as in not-letting-harm-come-to-a-single-hair-on-his-head safe.

Joe Blow can’t get through airport security with a 4-oz. bottle of mouthwash, and these two shameless, self-promoting dipsticks get within shouting distance of the leader of the Free World. Or whatever.


This is not comforting:

“It’s important to note that they went through all the security screenings — the magnetometer screening — just like all the other guests did,” [Secret Service spokesman Ed] Donovan said. And, he added, Obama and others under Secret Service protection had their usual security details with them at the dinner.

Remember this, just a couple of months ago?

Al Qaeda has developed a new tactic that allows suicide bombers to breach even the tightest security… Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia’s counter terrorism operations.

To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, one of Saudi Arabia’s most wanted men, avoided detection by two sets of airport security including metal detectors and palace security. He spent 30 hours in the close company of the prince’s own secret service agents – all without anyone suspecting a thing.

How did he do it?

Taking a trick from the narcotics trade – which has long smuggled drugs in body cavities – Asieri had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum.

[emphasis added]

Based on the photographic evidence at Michaele Salahi’s Facebook page, some other dinner guests shared the Salahis’ prodigious potential for bomb-toting capacity, to wit:

As a conservative and a patriot, I respect and honor the office of the President. Your job is to keep the man safe. I beseech you.

Sincerely,
Yr humble correspondent,

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Has Obama's Department of Vetting taken over the Secret Service?

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 2:39AM EST (link)

I know how she got inside so easily, someone let her in

speciallist (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 3:29AM EST (link)

exactly 'llist, much as Obama wanted Van Jones and much so many Americans were duped to let Obama in the White Hosue in the first place

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 6:50AM EST (link)

Those that associate with Obama are disgraced more thatn vice versa, and given the horror film we have with Obama and Biden’s heartbeats, I can’t imagine it would be worse with Pelosi, Reid’s or Hillary’s, just to take this succession line down the line, given the Chicago Way company these crooks keep.

Everyone realizes that Bill and Hillary hung out with Bill Ayers as well, right?

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This is exactly what I said to everyone I was with yesterday.....

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 6:15AM EST (link)

Someone NEEDS to lose their job over this. I want The idiot 100% gray and wrinkled and looking 100 but ALIVE to enjoy his concession speech :) I had not even thought of the HORROR of Pelosi being two heartbeats away….good gracious that is a TERRIBLE thought this early in the morning!

Yes, Obama should be fired for hiring Thug Rahm, but how do can't fire the bum that hired him till '12...those guests are tainted by their associations with Obama! no vice versa- It is Obama

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 6:55AM EST (link)

that calls out the pitchforks on bank ceos. If all he did was show his breasts/pecs, America would be better off.

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Vetting at White House social functions

Michael M. Keohane (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 6:34AM EST (link)

is not a Secret Service function. That is up to the White House social director and staff. The Secret Service vets the guest list days prior to each event but, at the event itself, the social director and staff are the ones to confirm or deny admission. If wq

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Sorry, the last comment was posted in error

Michael M. Keohane (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 6:38AM EST (link)

As I was saying the determination as to whom is an invited guest is the responsibility of the social director and staff. At the function, the Secret Service merely screens the approved guests and provides security. The screeners from the social director’s office were the ones who failed to catch the couple.

Do not classify the words or deeds of your opponents as being hatefull, malicious or criminal in nature if they can also be easily characterized as simple ignorance or gross stupidity. Anon.

If true, that just doesn't make any sense at all

WarEagle01 (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 9:20AM EST (link)

We have photographic evidence that this couple was in easy knife range of Plugs Biden. (And I suspect they weren’t using sporks at a State Dinner.) I think very highly of the Secret Service. They are, in fact, the only professionals currently occupying the White House. But, someone screwed the pooch big time.

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Could not agree more

Christine (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 7:03AM EST (link)

We want to see Barack Obama retired, back in Chicago or on a Hawaiian beach with his wife and daughters. We want Joe Biden retired and on the train back home.

Despite everything, they are the President and Vice President and they MUST be protected.

The primary process is FLAWED. Two states should not decide our candidate.

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Did Katie Couric ask Micheale Salahi what she reads?

jeannieology (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 8:29AM EST (link)

Just wondering?

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Biological Weapons?

SusanAnne Hiller (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 9:25AM EST (link)

Guess no one has heard of them, huh? Contagious viruses??

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What scares me more is that

Warrior (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 10:07AM EST (link)

Katie Couric has access to POTUS. Disgusting.

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That's the first thing I said

liberty12 Friday, November 27th at 10:54AM EST (link)

to my wife. A real journalist should turn down an invitation to a dinner like that in order to 1) remain objective, or 2) if (s)he is not objective, at least to give the public impression that (s)he IS objective. Her attendance at that function now further insinuates (if those living under a rock didn’t know) that she and her network are “in the tank” for this epic failure of a POTUS.

 
 

In the interest of accuracy...

mdyou (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 11:15AM EST (link)

…The One is SUPPOSED to see himself as President of the United States of America. It’s true, however he THINKS he’s the LEADER OF THE free WORLD, or whatever…

 

It was the WH's fault - more amateur hour

Insight (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 11:15AM EST (link)

From the AP this morning:
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During President George W. Bush’s administration, it was standard procedure to have someone from the White House social office at the gate for state dinners and other events with large groups of visitors, according to a former senior Bush aide who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to be seen as criticizing the Obama White House.

The social office is most knowledgeable about the guest list and could have been called in case of any uncertainty, this official said.

White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers, asked by the AP on Thursday whether personnel from her office were at the checkpoint said, “We were not.”

 

Security Problems for the Governor?

cjohnson Friday, November 27th at 1:44PM EST (link)

Turns out the governor had security breaches too:
http://winstonscat.blogspot.com/2009/11/colorado-governors-lawn-covered-in.html

 

Another Take:

Duke Friday, November 27th at 2:19PM EST (link)

I think “at home,” the Secret Service backs down to the White House social affairs office. While they may screen the guest list in advance, I doubt they check invitations. Once an approved guest is passed through to security, the Secret Service then does non-intrusive checks (these people ain’t a bunch of snuffies trying to board an airplane) and relies on the in place security devices that DO exist all over the property at the White House, and in fact all over the areas outside the Capitol Building, National Mall and White House. If you’ve ever been to DC you’ll have noticed some of them – public mailbox sized grey-colored machines that suck air and analyze it for various stuff, as well as other devices not so easily spotted.

I guess I’m wondering how effective the Secret Service can be when they are required to admit convicted domestic terrorists to the Oval Office. How do they know who to shoot in the event of a security crisis. It could be one of Obozo’s best friends! Besides, I doubt there’s ever a time that at least 2 Secret Service agents aren’t within diving range of The One, as a last resort.

All that said, however, I’d LOVE to give Michaele a body-cavity search. I’m certain, given enough looking, I’d be able to find something. A cranial-cavity search would, sadly, produce little from either of these two fakers. Well…, Biden either.

It’s not about a purge. It’s about an insurrection.

 

what about Hillary....

larryp Friday, November 27th at 2:50PM EST (link)

Isn’t she behind Nancy, so to speak, in the line of succession??

 

Wence Professionalism?

ss396 Friday, November 27th at 5:02PM EST (link)

The Secret Service had President Kennedy down in the floorboards in about a half-a-second flat..

The Secret Service had four guys laying across President Reagan, and another couple of agents all over Hinckley, in about a second-and-a-half.

But then an Iraqi journalist managed to throw not one, but two shoes at President Bush. I have wondered ever since how that was allowed? Why weren’t the Secret Service all over that guy the way that they used to protect the President? Is it because of being in a foreign land? But surely the President of the United States is the sovereign property of the USA, and if foreigners don’t like that, there are impossible physical contortions that they are free to experiment with.

And now we have gate-crashers at the White House. Say what you will about the WH Social Director, protection of the President is the responsibility of the Secret Service – without exception, according to their website. Other Departments and Agencies support the Secret Service; not the other way around.

Unless President Obama specifically overruled the Secret Service, there is a whole tier of folks who need to lose their jobs over this.

If you pay someone to sit on his butt, you can’t be surprised when he does.

 

24: Killing of President Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) comes to mind

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 7:15PM EST (link)

sorry if someone else has mentioned, I’m on a quick fly-by post as I have to rush out the door now…. but…..

that is what comse to my mind…. when/where a chemical agent is introduced directly to another via contact with another agent shielding the person doing the passing. They wouldn’t care who else came into later contact with whatever that agent was/is. What if someone was on a suicide mission and didn’t even care if they were infecting themselves (or whatever this “agent” was intended to be doing to the target), especially given current threats with many willing to give their own lives in the destruction of anything that has to do with the US let alone targeting a US President.

In this day and age that you can’t get a small item of hand-sanitizer past the TSA, if they are actually paying attention, the further question of whether or not something could get into the WH is a valid question.

but again, hate to post and run, but I must… Take care all!

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Updated story: Salahis met with Obama at State Dinner. nt

Steve Maley (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 8:21PM EST (link)

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I don't think we should be so quick to criticize the Secret Service.

The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, November 27th at 9:27PM EST (link)

Even the best agent is going to have trouble keeping the Goons Approved to Visit POTUS ™ list and the Goons Not Approved to Visit POTUS ™ straight. That’s part of why it’s best to have only one Goons list and keep them all away from him.

 

I don't buy any of this party crasher BS

jeannieology (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 8:49AM EST (link)

Tareq Salahi was on the Bd of Directors of a group that is an off shoot of an organization Rashid Khalidi once presided over as President–remember Khalidi? Obama’s old Chicago friend?

Questison, what would be the chance Salahi is on the Board of Directors of Palestinian Task Force with connections to former American Committee on Jerusalem President, Rashid Khalidi. Obama is a friend and supporter of Khalidi and suddenly, out of nowhere, the Salahi’s show up at the first White House State dinner and make it past high security barriers to the reception line and the President in one big serendipitous twist of fate?

Stay tuned we may find out Tareq and his zany wife were actually approved to attend by a “high WH official” who now wants to deny culpability.

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Agreed.

Steph C (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 9:22AM EST (link)

Something is just not quite right in this. My “antennae” are “vibrating” on this. I just don’t see it happening the way it’s being told.

Not to argue with the author of this diary because you are merely bringing us the official story as it has been posted everywhere but I’m loathe to think so ill of the Secret Service based on what we’ve been told so far.

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Too many coincidences...

jeannieology (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 9:38AM EST (link)

PLO friends of Obama’s PLO friends and we’re supposed to believe its all a coincidence?

I don’t think so.

But that is just me…what do I know?

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That's how I feel lots of times.

Steph C (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 10:51AM EST (link)

I’m not a great conservative mind or well known in conservative circles. Nor am I a proliferate commenter. I’m just plain old me with I hope a good dollop of common sense and common sense tells me things just don’t add up.

It could be the way the Obama administration has gone after our troops and the CIA. It could be the way he treats us ordinary folk. It could be a lot of things giving my “antennae” that vibrating feeling but I can’t shake that there is more to the story than is being told and that it may silently be shouting, “Set up!” or even plain stupidity on someone else’s part for which they’ll let the Secret Service take the fall.

Or it could even be the buildup for the next “crisis”

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Your antennae are onto something

jeannieology (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 12:08PM EST (link)

the very thing that “great conservative minds” miss!

Sometimes I think everything is "conventional wisdom"

Steph C (Diary) Sunday, November 29th at 7:07AM EST (link)

but there are times when conventional wisdom is stood on its head and this seemed like one of them. Once in awhile you have to think “outside the box” to understand what’s going on.

Obama is a president like none we’ve had before. There may be similarities with some few in our history but the bulk of what he does and how he thinks, we’ve never seen before.

And hopefully will never see again.

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You know Steph I think the exact same thing....

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 12:20PM EST (link)

My question would be WHO else was at that “state” dinner? The attention has been paid to these supposed “party crasher” and NO attention paid to the other guests. I would be curious to see the entire list for the evening and of course I would like to see what the speakers had to say. It was Obama as a guest at a dinner who LAUDED the PLO operative Khalidi of which the LA Times is still WITH HOLDING THE VIDEO of!

The whole DRAMA created around these party crashers is just a little to convenient for this Conservative!

That, too, is something to think about.

Steph C (Diary) Sunday, November 29th at 7:08AM EST (link)

Think we’ll ever see a full list of the guests attending?

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What a Waste..

wolfgang Saturday, November 28th at 9:28AM EST (link)

…of an opportunity.

For what? I don't think I'm following you. nt

mschmitt (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 9:34AM EST (link)

usque ad finem

 
 

I heard this morning

youthgrunt (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 9:58AM EST (link)

that they are contemplating charging the party crashers. But I haven’t figured out what they would charge them with. Trespassing? But they were let in. I just don’t know.

It sounds more like a butt covering to me.

 

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Veronica (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 10:17AM EST (link)

Vladimir, that photo was released by the WHITE HOUSE.

.. by the same folks who “set up” that pleasant Thanksgiving invasion during those footballl games. I thought I’d get an Obama break over the holidays, too.

It’s just an interesting way to arouse allegance of the right.

No point in losing sleep over this… just anticipate Obama doing something to sacrilige Christmas.

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Hmm, the whole thing sounds like crap anyway

Richard Mullins (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 12:16PM EST (link)

Because it seems that was intentional and the “Party Crashers” was more of deflection from what going on. I’m starting to think that this admin wants to have anything and everything when it come to Obama. I really think we have the first Omnipresent President.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 

Simple Solution: Political Correctness Allows Gate Crashing

Ausonius (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 8:05PM EST (link)

The most obvious solution as to how they got in is good old political correctness.

A person with a Middle Eastern sounding name shows up in a tuxedo with a blonde bimbo, and you expect anyone in BIG BRObama’s House to tell them “NO ENTRY!” ???

Political Correctness trumps any of those silly security measures for that exaggerated War On Terror, which is not really a problem.

As far as the theory goes about the gate crashing distracting from “inappropriate” guests, not impossible: to prove or disprove it, yes, let’s see that guest list! :)

Was Tiger Woods on it? If not, why not?

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Tiger Woods seems to have problems of his own.

Achance (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 8:09PM EST (link)

Mama finds out about the bimbo in Australia and takes a golf club to him. Tiger runs to his car with Mama in hot pursuit still armed with golf club. Tiger makes a boo-boo and Tiger is found with Mama standing over him with a golf club. God, I love the ways people can screw up their lives!

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So Much Talent, So Few Brain Cells

Ausonius (Diary) Saturday, November 28th at 9:30PM EST (link)

Again we see how large amounts of money can make some people think they are above the rules: and how many other people can tell the police to “wait a few more days” for their statement?

We will see if the Gate Crashers are above the rules as well: will there be charges against them?

Or will it just be an honest exuberant mistake?

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New pictures and exposed lies daily with these two

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Sunday, November 29th at 11:04AM EST (link)

These two scam there way into just about anything…. Clear they are “good Democrats” as they LIE SO WELL/EASILY!!!

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More help from Obama's Radical Friends

eaglewingz Sunday, November 29th at 1:13PM EST (link)

It’s soooo unfair. I mean all these radical anti western people just somehow find themselves inside the WH, and Obama and his mop just keep having to clean up the mess that unknown and unnamed others leave for him. When will this horror show stop? Why do these radicals continually seek to embarrass our center right President Obama? /sarc

Did the Salehi couple drop Rashid Khalidi’s name to get in? Did they drop the Bill Ayers’ name? Did they mention they were old pals of Obamas for many years? Did they claim that Secret Service were racially profiling them because the husband was muslim? Did Salehi ever meet Rev. Wright?
Lots of questions. I bet Mr. Obama will be as scarce to the press about this as Tiger Woods was about his unfortunate night out.

 

seems this is not the first time meeting Obummer

fotophun Sunday, November 29th at 2:56PM EST (link)

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