"The director of the Secret Service took the blame Friday for security failures that allowed a publicity-hungry couple from Virginia who weren't on the guest list for President Barack Obama's first state dinner to slip through security and directly encounter the president. White House officials confirmed Friday that Tareq and Michaele Salahi met the president in the receiving line at Tuesday's state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , but with the investigation continuing, the officials didn't offer additional details. Secret Service director Mark Sullivan said in a statement that his organization, which protects the president and processed 1.2 million entries last year alone to the White House complex, "is deeply concerned and embarrassed."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091128/pl_mcclatchy/3366254
Terrorists don't need weapons of mass destruction if they can get close enought to the president to shake his hand. Maybe now Obama will start taking homeland security concerns seriously.
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