Salahis contacted Pentagon official about attending state dinner

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

A top Defense Department official corresponded with Tareq and Michaele Salahi in an effort to get them into last week's White House state dinner, according to sources familiar with an investigation into the security breach. On Friday the couple turned over copies of the email exchange to the Secret Service investigators.

Sources said the e-mails were sent from Michele S. Jones, the special assistant to the Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon-based liaison to the White House, who lists the Salahis' lawyer, Paul W. Gardner, as one of her 50 friends on the Facebook social networking site.

Several people familiar with the Jones-Salahi correspondence argued the e-mails support the Salahis' case that they were cleared to attend Tuesday night's gala.

"There was e-mail correspondence confirming they were legitimately supposed to be there," said Casey Margenau, a close friend of the couple. "They understood they were invited."

"I did not state at any time, or imply that I had tickets for ANY portion of the evening's events," Jones said in a statement released by the White House late Monday. "I specifically stated that they did not have tickets and in fact that I did not have the authority to authorize attendance, admittance or access to any part of the evening's activities. Even though I informed them of this, they still decided to come."



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113003237.html?hpid=topnews

[mike_c]

1. ruh-roh....

So much for all the outrage about "dinner crashers." This might just be a dumb misunderstanding that went bad at multiple levels.

[pmorlan1]

2. Establishment Media Deserves to Go Out of Business

Our establishment media is giving tons of coverage to the White House "party crashers" and to the single car wreck of Tiger Woods but yet they can't spare TV time or space in the newspapers to actually cover meaningful news stories. How pathetic. They speculate about prosecuting the WH "party crashers" yet they are horrified that anyone would even suggest that we prosecute war criminals who authorized the torture of our prisoners. They are absolutely useless.

[robo50]

4. I have to agree. Establishment news is usesless..........

Let's put them out of business somehow, maybe un-invite them to any state dinner would be a start.

[pmorlan1]

5. Green with Envy

So many of our media personalities talked for days on end about the State Dept. dinner being "the ticket" that everyone wanted. They whined and pouted that they wouldn't get to go so now I think they're green with envy about the party crashers getting to go when they couldn't. LOL. Now I see why TV was always called the boob tube.

[robo50]

9. I think you're right, green with envy, and fools with no message

They spend so much time dealing with the social scenes in NY, DC, Hollywood, and so little time reporting and dealing with substantive material.

[harmonicon]

6. +1

[HopeHoops]

3. And just what the HELL does the Pentagon have to do with a WH state dinner?

That's like calling the Pope to see if he'll administer a bar matzvah.

:wtf:

[robo50]

10. LOL you gave me my first laugh of the day!

The pope and a bar mitzvah..yeah, I'd like to see one of those.

[Mr. Sparkle]

7. If this is true, then it makes the media "once again" into a laughing stock! n/t

[Iggo]

8. So they tried to get in before they tried to get in?

Look everybody! Look at the party crashers! Bad, bad people! We hate them!