W.H. Dinner Crashers

[TiminOhio]

Does anyone know who leaked or how the media learned that a couple 'crashed" a state dinner at the White House?
The story doesn't seem to die and yahoo (where my e-mail is) keeps updating the original story with small details, but it seems that how the media learned of it has been left out or perhaps was only mentioned "enpassant" (in-passing a French chess term regarding one method a pawn can capture another pawn).
I ask because if there was a protocol breech or security breech one would expect the White House to remain private about it rather than advertise it and correct the situation quietly & privately rather than to publicize it.

[Dar]

http://specials.msn.com/A-List/White-House-party-crashers.aspx?cp-searchtext=White%20House%20party%20crashers&GT1=36010


Tim, did you see this link?

[lucille]

curioser and curioser:confused:

[TiminOhio]

Dar,
I checked out your link and its links!
The best I gleamed is that a couple of reporters (a valid source?) from the Washington Post first broke the story. The couple, apparently playing the 'fame game' to make money, merely indicated that they attended a White House Dinner on their Web Site in order to increase their status for various reasons. they never said they were 'crashers' like that movie the 'Wedding Crashers'. But according to a story,
By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 26, 2009,
the reporters claim that a White House official informed them - or at least that is how they have passrd off the story.
So only very few insiders (inside the whitehouse gates) would have known that a couple not on an official invitation list talked their way into the dinner while at the gate - entrance to the White House. Larry King once got into an event at the White House when he wasn't on the list. A big deal wasn't made about him - how many wives has he had - hmmmm. And of course that breech of protocol had to be reviewed internally once it was discovered. So who discovered the breech (made a big deal of the issue) in the first place and reported it to someone to start an internal investigatin and who had access to that information and reported it to two reporters at the Washington Post?
Shouldn't the White House be more concerned with who the internal official was that leaked the story to the press and remove them - fire them publically to make a point! Shouldn't that be the real focus of the story rather than a harmless couple trying to build up their status & resume as socialites? So I am more concerned about the credibility of a paper that publishes stories from 'unknow public officials' and seems to enhance the crime this official has committed - the word I believe is 'abated'. Does that official have a job guarantee should he or she lose their job if found out? Why else would they choose to risk a career, etc. and leak the story to the press?
It doesn't seem like the reporters compared a list of invited guests with their observance of the guests as they arrived at the White House. When, if ever, does the White House provide the press with an official list of names on a guest list in advance? Like movie stars arriving at the Oscars or Academy Awards, there is much fanfare by the media to announce the arrival of expected stars & guests (have seats at the event), so when has the media covered a White House State Dinner in such lime light. The Prime Minister of India coming to a White House is hardly an event the public is interested in as there seems to be no real issues with India at this time as would be had it been certain other World Leaders. But given it was the Obama's first formal dinner party for a foreigh dignitary then, one would still expect more press coverage as guest arrived.
So what is the real angle here....to obtain more press coverage of the next White House dinner to see who the Obama's invite to rub palms with a World Leader? Sorry Double 007 (James Bond) no British spies will be invited to the next dinner as the press will be watching who comes and goes! :rolleyes: