Tareq and Michaele Salahi Breached Security to Attend President Obama's First State Dinner to Honor Indian Prime Minister (Washington Post)

How in the world were two uninvited guests to President Obama's first state dinner able to gain entrance, dodging layers of security? Well, apparently Tareq and Michaele Salahi managed to do just that. According to the Washington Post, the aspiring reality television stars (morons is more like it) from Northern Virginia mingled with the likes of Vice President Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The couple was seen arriving at the White House and later posted on Facebook pictures of themselves posing with VIPs such as D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and his wife, Michelle; Katie Couric, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) and the biggest security breach of all, inside the dinner tent cozying up with Robin Roberts from ABC, Bollywood composer AR Rahman, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, and yes, with Vice President Joe Biden. They even shook hands with President Obama.

According to the Washington Post, a White House official reportedly said the couple were not invited to the dinner, not included on the official guest list and never seated at a table in the South Lawn tent. The White House has offered no official explanation and this appears to be the first time in modern history that anyone was able to crash a White House state dinner. The uninvited guests were in the same room as President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the guest of honor.

Considering that terrorism is a constant threat to the welfare of Americans, this is a blunder of enormous proportions and heads should be rolling at the White House and in the ranks of the Secret Service. Ed Donovan, spokesman for the Secret Service is quoted as saying, "Everyone who enters the White House grounds goes through magnetometers and several other levels of screenings.""That was the case with the state dinner last night. No one was under any risk or threat."He said a preliminary internal investigation Wednesday identified "a Secret Service checkpoint which did not follow proper procedure to ensure these two individuals were on the invited guest list." This should never have occurred and someone needs to be fired immediately. How hard was it for these Secret Service agents charged with verifying that the guests were on the guest list? That seems pretty basic to me. It is a federal crime to lie to a federal officer, so these two might be facing criminal charges.