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The Caucus: White House Blocks Testimony on Party Crashers

Updated | 10:22 p.m.  The White House on Wednesday invoked the separation of powers to keep Desiree Rogers, President Obama’s social secretary, from testifying on Capitol Hill about how a couple of aspiring reality television show celebrities crashed a state dinner for the prime minister of India last week.

And the couple will not testify, either, according to a statement released late Wednesday by a public relations firm.

The statement says that the Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, have provided to the Secret Service and to the ranking members of the House committee conducting the hearing “all relevant e-mails and cellphone records that detail communications with a White House official,” and can do nothing else to help in the inquiry.

That evidence, the statement says, shows that no laws were broken, that White House protocol “was either deficient or mismanaged” and that there were “honest misunderstandings and mistakes made by all parties involved.” [...]

Disaree: ObamaLand Clothing.

Pirate's Cove: Most Transparent Admin Evah! Blocks Testimony On Party Crashers

[...] Really? Seriously? President Neophytes admin is going to use political capital, what little is leftover, on this? Makes one wonder what they are hiding and what could come out with an investigation.

Correct me if I am wrong, but, isn’t one of Congresses powers to keep the Executive Branch honest? [...]

Donald Douglas: Washington Redskins Statement: Michaele Salahi Never Part of Cheerleading Squad

[...] More evidence that the Salahis are fraudsters. [END]

Political Pistachio: A Pair of White House Crashers

Desiree Rogers Won't Testify: White House Claims Executive Privilege in Crashergate Inquiry; Obama Cronies Circle Wagons as Damage Mounts!

[...] The buzz now is that Ms. Rogers -- who's an Obama political appointee from the Chicago machine -- has taken center stage in the the Salahi gatecrashing scandal on the eve of congressional hearings. Mediaite has a dramatic piece as well, "Will Desiree Rogers Be The White House’s Next Van Jones?" The Salahis' unauthorized intrusion, as noted there, is "an extremely serious breach of White House security that could have endangered the President's life."

Congressional investigators want to know why the White House failed to station social office staff at the receiving lines with Secret Service personnel. But Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is playing down the significance of the security breach. [...]

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Update on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 9:15PM by Mark "Snooper" Harvey

Jim Hoft: Dennis Miller on Crashergate Couple: At Least Obama Didn’t Bow to Them (Video)

Dennis Miller: “I want them to dispose her and get her to admit she’s 44 under oath… I’m just proud of our president when they showed him, it was nice to finally see him not bow to somebody, you know.”