Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the infamous 'White House Gate Crashers', plan to invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to testify if they are subpoenaed to appear on Capitol Hill about the security breach. The couple both issued the exact same statements about their intentions to use their rights.
The House Homeland Security Committee plans to vote Wednesday to subpoena the couple to testify. Stephen Best, the lawyer for the Salahis, stated that the committee is making 'premature conclusions' about the Salahis and their crashing of the state dinner at the White House in November.
District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton's was cited as calling the Salahis "practiced con artists." She also told the Salahis' lawyer, Stephen Best, that if the couple did not testify at the December 3 hearing, they would be viewed as modern-day versions of "Bonnie and Clyde."
The Secret Service currently is conducting a criminal investigation into the security breach.
A report on MSNBC tells of identical statements given by both Michaele and Tareq Salahi:
"I am aware of statements made by certain members on the Committee on Homeland Security in which premature conclusions concerning my criminal liability have been made. ... The current circumstances warrant invocation of my Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination."
Three Secret Service officers have been put on administrative leave after the security breach. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has said that the security breach is his agency's fault, but the president was never at risk.
Written by Cheryl Phillips
HULIQ.com
sources: MSNBC, CNN
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