More Ado About White House Dinner Crashers: Probes, Subpoenas and...Pom-Poms?

Virginia government investigating Michaele and Tareq Salahi's fundraising business; state dinner stunt wasn't Michaele's first foray into misleading limelight

By Natalie Finn Dec 03, 2009 11:13 PMTags
Tareq Salahi, Michaele SalahiPaul Morigi/Getty Images

Even if they hadn't shown up uninvited to the Obama administration's first state dinner, we're starting to think the Salahis would have appeared on our radar eventually.

Toreq and Michaele Salahi, a couple of publicity-seekers who thought rubbing elbows with the commander in chief would make an appealing plotline for The Real Housewives of D.C., ended up setting off a media firestorm about the state of security at the White House. (And Redskins games, but more on that later.)

After the Salahis opted not to appear today before a House Committee on Homeland Security, committee chair Bennie Thompson says they're getting the subpoena process rolling.

If they don't show up at a future hearing, Thompson told the Washington Post, they could be subject to "contempt of Congress."

One would hope, he added, that they would be "as willing to talk to Congress as they have been to talk to the media."

True, the Salahis don't appear very camera shy—especially that Michaele!

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