WASHINGTON — The aspiring reality show contestants accused of crashing President Obama’s first state dinner last week turned down an invitation to testify about the incident before Congress on Thursday, prompting the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee to threaten to subpoena them.
As for the white house, they have all of a sudden decided to throw up a constitutional argument to protect social secretary Desiree Rogers from testifying leaving the secret service as the only people who will be showing up to answer questions:
The director of the Secret Services, Mark Sullivan, is the only witness confirmed for the hearing. Although Mr. Sullivan has taken full responsibility for allowing the Salahis to enter the state dinner without invitations, the White House acknowledged Wednesday that its staff “did not do everything we could have done to assist” the Secret Service. And it said that from now on, a representative of the social secretary’s office would be at Secret Service checkpoints for major social events.
Very strange battle for the white house to pick.
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