Who said social networking sites are a waste of time?
It was the infamous Facebook photo album featuring Michaele and Tareq Salahi cozied up to Vice President Joe Biden and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel that tipped off the Secret Service of its breach in security at the White House State Dinner.
At the Committee on Homeland Security hearing Thursday, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., asked Secret Service Head Mark Sullivan how he discovered that the Salahis crashed the dinner.
“Did you discover it through their Facebook, or was it your own discovery that some interlopers had entered?”
“We did not discover that on our own.” Sullivan replied. “We were advised of it the following day.”
“Advised by who, sir?” Norton inquired.
“Facebook.”
But it wasn’t just Facebook that helped the Secret Service and the White House piece together the uninvited duo. Gossip gal Roxanne Roberts from the Washington Post was mentioned at the hearing as the first person to inform the White House staff that the Salahis were not on the list.
