http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6946937.ece By Giles Whittell in Washington The Times December 8, 2009 If the would-be celebrities who crashed a White House state dinner knew what the Secret Service knew they might not even have bothered to dress up. According to a devastating internal review leaked after Tareq and Michaele Salahi strolled into the banquet for the Indian Prime Minister without a ticket, there have been at least 91 breaches of Secret Service security in the past 30 years, including at least four by a serial intruder who believes that God has made him undetectable to bodyguards. It turns out that the men who talk into their cuffs are only human. A family of four once penetrated the White House security cordon simply by honking on the horn of their minivan. Five years later an intruder nicknamed the Paper Boy drove through an open White House gate unchallenged and gave a Secret Service agent a pair of handcuffs before he was himself arrested. In 2003 a stowaway flew several thousand miles across Africa aboard Air Force One without credentials, claiming when apprehended that he had brought weapons on to the presidential jet, and four times between 1991 and 2003 the Rev Richard "Rich" Weaver shook hands with presidents he was not cleared to meet. On at least two of those occasions Mr Weaver managed to give the Commander in Chief a souvenir of his supposedly divine mission. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Tue Dec 08 2009 - 00:09:40 PST
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