Uh-oh …
As the Secret Service admitted Monday that there weren’t two, but three, White House state dinner crashers, the State Department became the newest player to take some heat.
It seems Party Crasher No. 3 went through security at the Willard InterContinental Hotel and then arrived at the White House with the Indian delegation, which falls under the responsibility of the State Department. When the Salahis were the only known crashers, most fingers pointed at the Secret Service for the breach.
The Secret Service clearly lay blame in its announcement, and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., who sits on the congressional committee looking into the crashing incidents, also chimed in.
“The State Department is not a security agency,” Norton said in a statement. “This incident, along with the terror attempt on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab may well show that the State Department is a weak link in U.S. security.”
