Impenetrable Security

    They haven’t received much publicity here, but Tareq and Michaele Salahi have the gossipmongers on the East Coast chattering and the U.S. Secret Service reeling from one of the biggest security breaches at the White House that has ever been made public. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112601514.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009112601518)

    The Salahis, he a slightly overweight gentleman and she a stunning blonde, became possibly the biggest gate crashers in history when they were able to finagle their way inside the White House earlier this week without an invitation for President Obama’s first-ever state dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

    Michaele, who claims to be a former Washington Redskins cheerleader, even has pictures on her Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michaele-Salahi/101907941877?ref=ts) of the event. She, and sometimes her husband, can be seen in photographs being embraced by Vice President Biden, Katie Couric, Rahm Emanuel and others. I guess the pictures could have been Photoshopped, but it seems unlikely.

   The Secret Service has said it is looking into how the couple could have got inside the White House without an invitation. There are lots of theories running around, but the fact is someone fell down on the job.

   Fortunately, this was a couple that presented no threat to the president or others at the dinner, but what if they had been terrorists?    

   Here’s what worries me:  In the near future, our government is going to put five suspected (confessed) terrorists, including the ringleader of the 9/11 attacks on trial in federal district court in New York City. The U.S. Attorney General has promised that security will be excellent!

   If the government can’t protect the White House and the president any better than this, why should we expect them to protect the people of New York?

    The terrorists are going to have a field day!