Desiree Rogers, White House Social Secretary, Will Not Testify About Gatecrashing Salahis
WASHINGTON — The White House is refusing to send its social secretary to Congress on Thursday to testify about the gatecrashing at last week's s...
WASHINGTON — The White House is refusing to send its social secretary to Congress on Thursday to testify about the gatecrashing at last week's s...
CBS News | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
After the briefing, Gibbs went to the president for clarification. Gibbs then called me to his office to relate what the president said. The president...
Sam Sedaei | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Many of us were frustrated by the Patriot Act and the way in which it led to profiling and discrimination against minorities during the Bush administration. President Bush is gone, but his legacy lives on.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green
On the anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic act of civil disobedience, when her refusal to move from her seat on December 1, 1955 sparked the Montgomer...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
Senior White House officials said Tuesday night that while President Obama intends to start drawing down U.S. forces in Afghanistan starting in July 2...
Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Emails sent between Tareq and Michaele Salahi and Pentagon official Michelle S. Jones show that the couple was never granted approval to attend last w...
Politics Daily | Posted 12.01.2009 | Style
The Obama White House kicks off a giant holiday social season this week, I've learned: 28 parties and open houses planned for December, with more than...
David Wild | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment
Here's a playlist for America's latest fun couple to be used at the very next party they crash together.
Danny Groner | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
If the Salahis were so methodical with their plan to get cameras into the White House dinner, how could they put their trust in this publicist and lawyer?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
I'd describe Politico's brand of journalism as banality, added to Scientology, multiplied by the spasmodic frenzy of a tween who hasn't learned to displace their unfulfilled erotic needs onto emo vampires.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics
While Washington is all a-twitter over two society climbers crashing the gates at an Obama soirée, in the grand sweep of history, it was a fairly minor event. No one was in danger, and no real harm was done, nobody got dosed with LSD.
Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama announced five nominees for administration posts on Monday, including several ambassadors. The full list, pending confirmation...
Elayne Boosler | Posted 12.01.2009 | Comedy
You don't "breeze on past" White House security by simply "walking in with confidence." It's not a hotspot in the Meatpacking District.
latimes.com | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
The United States is developing a set of benchmarks to ensure that Karzai fights corruption and inefficiency, instituting a "monitoring and verificati...
Wall Street Journal | YOCHI J. DREAZEN and MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration has soured on a call from its top commander to double the size of the Afghan police and army, reflecting the White House's co...
Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) voiced their concerns Sunday about the war in Afghanistan, it...
LA Times | Greg Miller | Posted 11.29.2009 | World
The persistent skepticism from the president's own party, along with new doubts raised by Republicans who have generally supported broadening the conf...
Newsweek | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
The White House staff member whose job was to supervise the guest list for state dinners and clear invitees into the events says she was stripped of m...
Mira Veda | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics
The state dinner comes at an ideal time when both countries have common interests, to spread democracy, economic growth, free markets and fight terrorism.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (AP/HuffPost)-- The Obama administration, battling a foreclosure crisis that shows no signs of relenting, will step up pressure on mortgage...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — A television executive says the couple who crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner is offering to talk to broadcast netwo...
Harry Shearer | Posted 11.27.2009 | Entertainment
If the Heenes weren't enough, here came the Salahis -- both families obviously just this close to the line of offering to kill family members if only it would get them a TV series.
AP/ The Huffington Post | Posted 11.27.2009 | Style
WASHINGTON -- The White House is now open for Christmas. First lady Michelle Obama, along with daughters Malia and Sasha, received the official Whi...
people.com | Michael Y. Park | Posted 11.27.2009 | Style
What does the leader of the free world tuck into on Bird Day? Anything -- and everything -- he wants. ...
Clarence B. Jones | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
The President should get out in front of the State Dinner security breach instantly and announce a top-to-bottom White House security review, concentrating specifically on Secret Service procedures.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics