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| The White House wasn't the first gate Carlos Allen crashed |
| 2010-01-12 |
| Here's what we know about how Carlos Allen, the latest White House party crasher, wound up at Barack Obama's first state dinner: Five days before the event, Allen told a friend that he'd received an invitation from the White House to dine with the prime minister of India. In retrospect, it was an odd claim. Allen wasn't famous, a big political donor, or Indian. He wasn't even, it seemed, fully employed. Yet he gave no hint that he was surprised to have been invited. Nor was Allen's friend surprised to hear it. Allen, she later said, seemed like the kind of guy who might be asked to have dinner with Hillary Clinton and Deepak Chopra. The evening of the event, Allen didn't go directly to the White House. He stopped first at the Willard Hotel a few blocks away because, in what his lawyer describes as a "purely coincidental" act, he had to use the men's room. As Allen was looking for the john, a group of Indian business executives were gathering in the hotel to depart for the dinner. For reasons that remain unclear, Allen joined them. Together Allen and the Indian CEOs passed through a Secret Service security checkpoint, climbed into a State Department van and drove to the West Wing. |
| Posted by:Fred |