NY Times The Caucus (emphasis emphatically mine):WASHINGTON--The Obama White House on Wednesday blocked Social Security Desiree Rogers from testifying today before the House Homeland Security Committee hearing on how wannbe reality TV stars Tareq and Michaele Salahi whizzed by Secret Service agents and crashed the Nov. 24 state dinner.
The Salahi's also may not appear at [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
December 2, 2009
MEMORANDUM
TO: White House Staff
FROM: Jim Messina, White House Deputy Chief of Staff
SUBJECT: Review of White House Procedures during the State Dinner on November 24,2009 and New Guidelines
On Wednesday, [...]
By Mark Rhoads
The good news is that for the most part, President Obama has taken the advice of his chief commander on the gound in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal instead of the advice of wannabe Gen. Joe Biden and other White House political advisers who never even got close [...]
by Mark Silva
"Pay grades'' may be quaking in Washington.
Vice President Joe Biden said today that the question of what sort of criminal penalties the Virginia couple who got into the White House during a State Dinner without authorization should face is "above my pay grade.''
But there are plenty of [...]
*Clarification: In the morning, the President and Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing at 10:40AM.
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REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATION
ON THE WAY FORWARD IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
Eisenhower Hall Theatre
United States Military Academy at West Point
West Point, [...]
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FACT SHEET: THE WAY FORWARD IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
OUR MISSION: The President's speech reaffirms the March 2009 core goal: to disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat al [...]
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Remarks of President Barack Obama--As Prepared for Delivery
The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
United States Military Academy at West Point
December 1, 2009
Good evening. To the United [...]
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Excerpts of the President's Address to the Nation
"The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 - the fastest pace possible - so that they can target" [...]
WASHINGTON--As Congress and the Secret Service probe how Tareq and Michaele Salahi gained entrance to President Obama's state dinner last week without being on the guest list, I've learned that the Obama White House has 28 holiday parties planned over the few weeks with more than 50,000 people [...]
Transcript courtesy Federal News Service
NBC "Today Show" interview
MR. LAUER: Now to the couple accused of crashing the Obamas' first White House state dinner. We're going to talk to them extensively in our next half-hour, but right now Michaele and Tareq Salahi are with us.
Good morning to [...]
by Mark Silva and updated
The couple who made their way into a White House State Dinner officially uninvited and met the president, vice president and other high-level officials there said today that they are not gate-crashers and have been "devastated'' by criticism.
Tareq Salahi, making his first television appearance" [...]
The Rashid Khalidi connection? Slip them in unofficially? GatecrasherGate? FOBarack White House Social Director Desiree Rogers is in the hot seat, asked to testify at a Thursday House hearing. Reportedly, when the Obama administration swept into the White House Ms. Rogers [...]
from the White House....
On Friday, the President will visit Allentown, Pennsylvania to kick off a White House to Main Street Tour that will take him to cities and towns across the country over the course of the next few months. In an effort to spend some time [...]
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In the morning, the President and Vice President will receive the Economic Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This [...]
WASHINGTON --White House social secretary Desiree Rogers has been asked to testify at a Thursday hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee about how wannabe reality TV stars Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashed the Obama's first state dinner last week.
The hearing is titled "The United States Secret" [...]
On the eve of World AIDS Day, global AIDS and Africa solidarity organizations released a report card today evaluating President Obama’s first year in office-giving the President and his Administration a ‘D+’ for work so far. Advocates also called the White House’s World AIDS Day announcement that the [...]
WASHINGTON--The Obama White House latest mortgage help plan, released Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.
More information about the Obama Administration's mortgage modification program can be found at www.MakingHomeAffordable.gov.
Below, release
Obama administration Kicks off Mortgage Modification Conversion Drive
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury and Department of [...]
by Mark Silva
All they want to do is light a tree.
But the Obamas will have plenty of help on Thursday for their first lighting of the National Christmas Tree erected between the White House and Washington [...]
Below, release.......
Thompson to Examine White House Security Breach at Congressional Hearing Thursday
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Secret Service Director Sullivan and Mr. & Mrs. Salahi will be called to testify
(WASHINGTON) - Having reviewed preliminary findings regarding a breach of security at the White House State Dinner last [...]
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