Carlos Allen: 3rd White House Crasher Identified; UPDATE: Allen Denies Attending

UPDATE: Carlos Allen, the man accused of being the third White House gate crasher, denies being at November's state dinner. "I did not attend the state dinner," Allen repeatedly told Politico.

The Secret Service says another person not on the guest list was allowed into a White House state dinner for India's prime minister in November. While officials have yet to release any details, the Washington Post is reporting the man's name is Carlos Allen:

A congressional source, who was granted anonymity to speak about the ongoing investigation into porous security at the White House, identified the man as Carlos Allen, a D.C. party promoter who runs an event space in Mount Pleasant. The source saw Allen's name in official e-mails and documents pertaining to the Secret Service probe. Allen, 39, did not respond Monday to repeated e-mails and phone messages. The Post spoke with him last month regarding a comment he made to a blogger about having attended the state dinner; in the brief exchange, he denied knowledge of anything to do with the dinner.

Officials have been reviewing White House security procedures after it was discovered that an attention-seeking couple - Tareq and Michaele Salahi - made their way into the party without an invitation and shook hands with the president. Monday's acknowledgment brings the tally to three people who made it through Secret Service security at the White House without being on a guest list.

The Secret Service says someone traveling with the Indian delegation was allowed in. The service says this person was screened at the hotel with the rest of the Indian delegation who attended the state dinner.

Comments

[hasheville]

10:33 AM on 01/05/2010

Not the same, not a crasher since they were thoroughly checked out before entering the WH. This is just the media latching onto more trivia to keep a story alive and poke fun at the Obama WH.

[shivasquest]

03:53 PM on 01/06/2010

He didnt belong.Someone isnt protecting the president.That doesnt concern you?

[AnnfromCA]

08:38 AM on 01/05/2010

OK, now it's clear that the Secret Service has a problem.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

08:43 AM on 01/05/2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120602556.html

91 security breeches unclassified since 1980. So there could be a lot more that are still classified.

[ElsaIndy]

07:39 AM on 01/05/2010

Sally Quinn had this to say about the lack of security at the state dinner: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010402722.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

That Obama refused to allow Rogers testify before congress reflects badly on him. There needs to be accountability in the White House . The president might have been assassinated and the White House would have been responsible along with the Secret Service. His office should not be involved in obstructing an investigation into this appalling breach of security.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

10:59 AM on 01/05/2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120602556.html

It's a witch hunt per and simple. Notice several such breeches had occured under Shrub yet no one was raked over the coals. Only reason Rogers was targeted is because she is a black woman and wasn't in charge of the security that is the Secret Service why not get the damn director of the Secret Service to testiy as to what happened rather then the person in charge of the guest list? It was the guards who let the gate crashers in at their word and assumed they were invited. They weren't doing the job of checking to see if their names were on the list.

[iceage7]

04:08 AM on 01/05/2010

Another Systamatic Failure. Will the CIA come out and say the Systems Worked after the guests got into the white house coz the president and his guest was not hurt.

The problem with this... it not only puts the president at risk but the indian PM whos known to face threats...remember mumbai...what if the guy was a mumbai terr@rist sent to the white house.

[stuporman]

02:20 AM on 01/05/2010

carlos allen was the hoaxer behind the philadelphia experiment.

[ThruSpaceAndTime]

02:18 AM on 01/05/2010

Watch your flank, attack will come from there. Know thine enemy better than you know thyself. Yes Mr. President, you won, and that fact for the reasonable is still a sign of progress and a great testament to the people who had the will, courage, and insight to elect you. However, that does not mean there is not a vicious undercurrent of hate and hope for failure that exists amongst the electorate and amongst the very people in the inner circles of power. This incident like any other could be an honest boneheaded mistake. It is the preponderance of incidents and the running vicious editorial that finds me putting to words -- be careful Mr. President. I love you. I am glad you are president. I do not agree with your approach on certain things, but I do not wish you harm. I wish you transcendence beyond indoctrination. I know there are those who do hope for your downfall – in any form. Be careful sir, because as I wrote here before, if anything happens it is going to be a game changer...”and that ain't no idle chatter”. Cheney is a real enemy. Watch out for his plants and operatives of doom. People and events can be put into play to achieve designed ends (as I am sure you are aware). Hata's, unfortunately did not meet extinction upon your election. If anything, The Hata's are more riled and audacious than ever.

[ThruSpaceAndTime]

03:01 AM on 01/05/2010

$Note: Yes, I know the president is not reading this thread
Second, if you do not understand what I wrote, do yourself a favor and GTFUTS, rather than leave some pis poor representation of a witty comment. Resist attempting to make your way off others. Do not be one who gains whatever imagined gain through attempts at debasing others who if you were in a room with them your comment would be far more measured. I am happy to clarify meaning but of swings slides and seesaws, when I want to play I'll go to the playground.

[janeycat]

12:24 AM on 01/05/2010

I'm going to the next dinner and i will make my way right into the Family living area and go in and read
the girls a bed time story or two.. i know Michelle and Barack are busy at those times and would welcome me to read to the girls and tuck them into bed.

:-)

[2tango]

11:53 PM on 01/04/2010

Obama have a lot of foes in the government branches.

[jtbreeze94]

11:19 PM on 01/04/2010

They need to replace the Secret Service Director, Mark J. Sullivan. Because he's not doing enough This is Ridiculous I don't recall a breach while George W. Bush was in Office. Obama really needs start questioning the SS.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

11:25 PM on 01/04/2010

Ahem there were breeches during the Shrub's presidency one person in fact got through several times and was known to the Secret Service as penetrating their security throught multiple presidencies multiple times each president's term. One breech involved a grenade that nearly went off right next to Shrub that didn't go off because the handerkcheif was wrapped tight around the grenade. .

[Robespierre]

12:30 AM on 01/05/2010

And documentation to this is WHERE?

[decsatsv]

11:06 PM on 01/04/2010

Heck of a job Desiree!

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

11:29 PM on 01/04/2010

Sorry the person responible for this was a Bush holdover.

[repugnicansfearme]

10:33 PM on 01/04/2010

Maybe they should get Blackwater (aka The Company Formerly Known As Blackwater--- sounds like Prince---Hey! Eric Prince!!!) DUDE! Seriously, if anyone crashes and Blackwater is around, they just blow them away along with lots of innocent bystanders. But, for real here, this is idiocy. Who should take charge of this? Emanuel? Forget that, he is the Invisible Man when it comes to taking charge, taking responsibility. But, the first black president, and let's face it, probably the last if the repugnicans continue their jedi mind tricks, should have better protection.

[chrisfrmchi2]

11:01 PM on 01/04/2010

Do you even realize that this was a jedi mind trick?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofwgk0D5dHs

and the irony of where he is taking it?

[cycle3man]

10:31 PM on 01/04/2010

I think that I'll go to the next Whitehouse Party/ Dinner!

I pay taves and their spending my money.

[Aranxa]

10:31 PM on 01/04/2010

That's just so tacky.

[rubinoff]

10:29 PM on 01/04/2010

While I'm not a conspiracy theorist, somethings are making me go hmmmmmmm.????

[chrisfrmchi2]

10:56 PM on 01/04/2010

I'm a conspiracy expert. its like baseball stats but times,history and different theories branching from the mundane to hardcore stuff that gets moderated out.

what is more interesting about it is that its getting so much press when there had been 91 prior security breaches which included someone shooting the windows in 1994 and crashing a plane in the lawn.

Why are they making this a big issue? why is the msm pushing this story?
its nothing really big and normally they would have ended the story and buried it.

the conspiracy is they are trying to make you feel this is common place now and then when the event happens it makes more sense as a random than a directed planned action.

that or they are reminding the president how close they can get...as a threat or reminder to keep towing the line.

There really is two very plausible theories that can be worked out and researched.
one slightly less innocent than the other but all really bad on how things could really be run in the country and government.

[rubinoff]

12:14 AM on 01/05/2010

ty for a reply :)

[ThePeacemakers]

01:08 AM on 01/05/2010

Were the other 89 breeches, other than the blasted windows and plane, OUTSIDE the White House and/or OUTSIDE shouting distance of the pres and other international VIPs?

[kbkw211]

09:59 PM on 01/04/2010

Wow! They can't protect a White House dinner and we are supposed to believe that they can protect the American people from terrorists attacks.

[OB-GYN]

10:14 PM on 01/04/2010

Pretty much sums up how I'm feeling about this.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

11:26 PM on 01/04/2010

Ah dude if you knew anything you would know the Secret Service has dozens of breeches in the past thirty years. Several of the most serious one in particular involving a grenade happened under Bush the Second.

[Factonfact]

01:26 AM on 01/05/2010

Yes, that is the position being pushed by the RepubliKlans.

How thoughtful of you to give voice to it.

[jan4insight]

02:52 AM on 01/05/2010

Yep, and it's what they (the repug's) want us to think.