{"id":1452,"date":"2009-11-27T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/27\/heads-need-to-roll"},"modified":"2009-11-27T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T20:43:00","slug":"heads-need-to-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"Heads need to roll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Everyone in Washington is aghast that two party crashers elbowed their way this week into the White House state dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Even more astonishing would be if someone isn&#8217;t canned &#8212; or perhaps prosecuted &#8212; over this monumental mess-up.<\/p>\n<p>Tariq and Michaele Salahi weren&#8217;t invited to the state dinner, which President and Mrs. Obama hosted for the prime minister of India and his wife. But they got in. The word now is that a Secret Service employee let them enter without asking them for proper identification.<\/p>\n<p>The Salahis apparently are reality-TV stars. So, perhaps this was a plot line that they would develop on their show &#8212; although I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s watching it.<\/p>\n<p>This is far worse than the Balloon Boy episode involving the parents who staged the fake drama a few weeks ago involving their son&#8217;s purported flight in a balloon over Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>No, this one would could have turned out badly if the Salahis intended to do harm to someone &#8212; such as the <em>president of the United States of America.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/>I don&#8217;t want to hear about the Secret Service employee being put on &#8220;administrative leave.&#8221; The Secret Service, the arm of the Treasury Department with duties that include protecting the Leader of the Free World, needs to get to the bottom of this matter in a New York minute and fire the individual who let the party crashers into a state dinner. And if there are grounds for a criminal prosecution, then pursue that option, too.<\/p>\n<p>Get it done!<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone in Washington is aghast that two party crashers elbowed their way this week into the White House state dinner. Even more astonishing would be if someone isn&#8217;t canned &#8212; or perhaps prosecuted &#8212; over this monumental mess-up. Tariq and Michaele Salahi weren&#8217;t invited to the state dinner, which President and Mrs. Obama hosted for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heads need to roll<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}