Tareq and Michaele Salahi are the names of the couple that crashed the white house party back in November. They had no disturbing plans to ruin the night; they just wanted to go to the party. In this article we learn that the correspondent from CNN that was in charge of covering the story when it first broke had actually met the party crashing duo before. Apparently they had been at another party in which the reporter was in attendance about 2 years prior. The reporter said that he remembered thinking the couple was odd when he first met them as they began to converse with him as if they had been old friends. A college psychologist was called to weigh in on the matter and said that this couple was no different than many other attention seeking reality show wannabes that exist today. The psychologist said that this sort of thing is becoming more common place as the media of today needs to find 24 hours of news and will resort to covering obscure stories like balloon boys and party crashers. The article mentioned that three secret service personnel have been put on leave since the incident. It is frightening to think that something like this could happen in a time when our governmental security forces are supposed to be at their highest level. I guess this time we’re just lucky that this couple did not have any devious intentions.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/09/brush.with.salahis/index.html
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I heard about this story on the Daily Show and John Stewart had made a joke about the people that could get into the White House. It just seems that it was so easy for them to enter this party. This doesn't seem that it was a really huge problem considering they didn't cause harm to anyone. It was just two people who wanted to have a great time.
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