91 White House Breaches: Salahis Crashing Far From A First, Says Secret Service Report

Though there has been plenty of attention on Tareq and Michaele Salahi showing up to the White House State Dinner without being invited, a report from the Secret Service notes that there have been 91 White House breaches within a 23-year span.

The security breaches report focuses on 1980 to 2003, from the Carter Administration to that of George W. Bush.

The list includes, "officers mistakenly admitting to the White House grounds a family in a minivan, a man believed to be a delivery driver, and a woman previously known to agents after she had falsely claimed a 'special relationship' with Bill Clinton."

In fact, according to the report, one man, Richard Weaver, managed to get by Secret Service checkpoints four times -- in 1991, 1997, 2001 and 2003.

Comments

[MikeLicht]

10:30 AM on 12/09/2009

You missed some Obama White House gatecrashers. The last bunch didn't testify, either.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/masked-raiders-infiltrate-white-house/

[ElTommo]

03:22 PM on 12/08/2009

I knew it! The only reason this occurrence drew any attention is because there's a black democrat in the white house, and any reason to nitpick at his administration is seen as not only acceptable but urgent.

[dollbaby]

06:19 PM on 12/09/2009

It could be this got reall noticed because it was a state dinner and she was BOLD enough to put the pictures on her facebook page.