“Third Crasher” Confirmed by Secret Service

My readers may remember that back in early December I revealed Carlos Allen as the  alledged “Third Crasher” of President and Mrs. Obama’s first State Dinner. If you recall, an AskMissA.com contributor had met the alledged Third Crasher, Carlos Allen at a volunteer event over Thanksgiving, and he told her that he attended the State Dinner. As I wrote in a subsequent article, Carlos is buddies with Paul Gardner, the first attorney Tareq and Michaele Salahi used to deal with the crashing situation. Gardner is being investigated by Secret Service at this point, and it looks like Bravo/NBC Universal have retained the firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf for the Salahi’s, as we all know the Salahi’s owe over $2.1 million and don’t have two nickels to rub together.

Well, today Ronald Kessler who blogs for Newsmax.com revealed that the Secret Service confirms that there was a “Third Crasher” and this man is now under investigation. According to Kessler’s article:

Carlos Allen with General Petraeus

The man traveled to the White House from the hotel where the Indian delegation was staying. The Secret Service said the man arrived with members of that delegation. But he was not in the Secret Service’s database of people prescreened and approved to attend the event. Part of the security screening is a criminal background check that the Secret Service does before a guest enters the White House. The Salahis and the man traveling with the Indian delegation did not go through that background check.

But the Secret Service said all three uninvited guests went through other screening, such as metal detectors, before the event.

The man is a U.S. citizen and was with a group of Indian business leaders before the state dinner, according to a State Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The Indian embassy asked the State Department to transport the group to the White House dinner, the official said, adding that it’s rare for the agency to provide these services to delegations visiting the United States in a nonofficial capacity.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the agency has reviewed the incident and already made changes for how it handles foreign delegations.

It will be interesting to see if the “Third Crasher” is in fact Carlos Allen.

- Miss A