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This Week With Barack Obama (Free subscription) | yesterday
Desiree Rogers, Social Secretary has been under much warranted scrutiny for the Virginia couple who got into the State Dinner, uninvited. Obviously, the proper protocol was not followed by her office to verify guests on the list, along with the Secret Service. It is all broken down, here.On Hardball with Chris Matthews today, Congressman Bennie Thompson was questioned by Matthews on why this
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S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) “is in no hurry to follow his House counterparts by holding a hearing into Gatecrashergate,” Glenn Thrush reports. House Homeland Security chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has summoned Tareq and Michaele Salahi, along with Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, to testify before his committee on...
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MultiCultClassics (Free subscription) | yesterday
From USA TODAY… Plan to merge black colleges meets with ire By Elizabeth Crisp, The (Jackson) Clarion-Ledger JACKSON, Miss — Gov. Haley Barbour’s proposal to merge Mississippi’s three public historically black universities is sparking debate over its racial undertones and raising questions over the state’s funding of those colleges. Barbour has proposed combining the...
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The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Congress is calling on a pair of polo-playing socialites to explain how they successfully crashed The Obamas’ first White House State Dinner last Tuesday night at a hearing on Thursday. House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson is asking Tareq and Michaele Salahi, of Faquier County, Virginia, and the head of the Secret Service, Mark [...]
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Maryland congressman Bennie Thompson has called Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the infamous State Dinner party crashers , to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday. However, the Salahis are under no obligation to accept, and since they're definitely not being paid the half a million they desire and nobody watches C-SPAN, it's unclear what they'll decide. Still, this seems like...
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The Insider (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Congress on Monday called for an aspiring reality TV show couple to testify and explain how they successfully crashed a private White House dinner party last Tuesday night, according to a new report. CNN reports that House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson is asking for both the couple and the head of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan , to testify at a hearing on Thursday about...
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Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Congress on Monday called for an aspiring reality TV show couple to testify and explain how they successfully crashed a private White House dinner party last Tuesday night, according to a new report. CNN reports that House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson is asking for both the couple and the head of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan , to testify at a hearing on Thursday about...
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1115.org (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The Hill: The alleged White House state dinner crashers and the director of the Secret Service will testify on Capitol Hill this week. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan and Tareq and Michaele Salahi will appear Thursday before the House Homeland Security Committee, its chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), announced Monday. The Salahis can’t be too thrilled about that. [...]
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Congress calls for party crashers to testify. Washington (CNN) - The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee called Monday for the couple who crashed President Obama's state dinner last week and the head of Secret Service to testify at a Thursday hearing on the security breakdown at the White House event. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee [...]
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First Read (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Some might say Congress is already its own reality show, but proceedings on Thursday might actually become a scene in one. In addition to the director of the Secret Service, the chairman of House Homeland Security Committee, Bennie Thompson (D-MS), has asked party-crashers/Real Housewives of DC hopefuls Tareq And Michaele Salahi to testify before the committee after the...
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American Conservative Daily (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee on Monday called for the couple who crashed President Obama's first state dinner and the director of the Secret Service to testify at a full committee hearing this week on the security breach at the gala White House event. "This is a time for answers," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi Democrat, who is chairman of the committee. "This...
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
It's perfectly appropriate for Congress to investigate the Secret Service's Salahi security lapse, and the Service's public affairs staff is preparing for the eventuality. On Thursday, Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D-MS), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, plans a public hearing. His witnesses: USSS Director Mark Sullivan and Mr. and Mrs. Sahali. Together. "For more than two years, Chairman...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security committee is calling the Secret Service director and the couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner to testify on the incident Thursday. Mississippi's Bennie Thompson says he wants answers...
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Extra Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The couple that crashed a White House state dinner last week aren't trying to make money off their story, their rep insists. In a statement released Monday, Mahogany Jones tells "Extra:" "The Salahis are not 'shopping' any interviews or demanding money from any media networks to tell their story. We repute these false allegations and demand that this adverse, in accurate information...
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The Fighting 29th (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Eric Massa brought Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie Thompson to town. On Sunday, they met with some firefighters in Hornell. Yesterday, they visited Kennedy Valve , a manufacturing company in Elmira.
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