Gibbs Reacts To King's Push To Subpoena WH Social Secretary

"'I don't think even Peter King would have the audacity to put the Salahis in the category of Watergate and 9/11,' he said."

Unfortunately, based on Peter King's history, I wouldn't be surprised if he did just that.

Funny you should mention 9/11, Mr. Gibbs.

Does anyone remember how the Congressional hearings about this "security breach" turned out?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/the-protection-racket/

The more I think about it, the more I beieve that Rogers is just the worst kind of staff person you can have. What has she accomplished?

1. Bad execution with state dinner (typos on menu, apparently)

2. Contributed to security incident because of lack of understanding of how things should or might work (changed procedures from previous WH, "belt and suspenders" approach to guest admission)

3. Put boss in position where he looks worse instead of better, as he should have if. Of course, making her testify is political theater and hypocrisy, but it means Obama is put in a no-win situation and has to expend political capital to deal with it, over what is an essential trivial matter.

I used to work as a caterer. It's all about managing the details. I simply could not have sat with the guests at a dinner I helped plan and execute -- I would have been way too crazy worrying that the staff wouldn't get the seating or the wine selection right. That she thought she could "take off" once the event started tells me that she doesn't understand what her job requires.

So let's see, an Inspector General in San Diego (I believe) gets canned for doing his job, and the Social Secretary gets Presidential privilege for not doing hers. And we're lecturing Af-Pak on corruption? Tsk.

King is still pissed because the Negro smashed his party like he did that fly!

Eh. King is just mad that the people who got through were not his Aryan Nation rentboys. The whole purpose of Republicans wanting details on how this happened is to exploit a hole in security to get White Power assassins close to the President. When the Southern Traitor Cracker Party claims to be looking after the best interests of a black man, all they want is info on how to best carry out a lynching. And to be quite honest, considering we know Bush stacked the rest of the government with fifth columnists, I don't expect the Secret Service to stop them if they tried.