Clamping down: The Salahis to plead the Fifth

The House Homeland Security Committee will decide Wednesday whether to subpoena Washington’s favorite fame-seeking couple — Tareq and Michaele Salahi — and haul them before Congress to testify.

But if subpoenaed, the Salahis will plead the Fifth, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

In a letter from the Virginia couple’s attorney, the twosome said they would invoke their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, as their White House crash of the Nov. 24 state dinner is still being investigated by the Secret Service.

No charges have yet been filed.

House committee members were able to get Secret Service head Mark Sullivan to testify before them last week, but the Salahis and Social Secretary Desiree Rogers declined to attend.

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