Secret Service's Statement on Party Crashers

Mark Sullivan says the Secret Service made a mistake. Established procedures were not followed at an initial checkpoint. The Secret Service apologized at the get go, but republican Peter King must not have anything better to do than go after the social secretary to score some political points. Does he really think that the White House isn't concerned about the security breech? Read the White House memo on the review of procedures. Yet King, the truth seeker that he is, doesn't care if the Salahis testify.

Meanwhile, Obama defends the Secret Service today:

"I could not have more confidence in the Secret Service," Obama told USA TODAY's Richard Wolf and Justin Hyde of the Detroit Free Press in an interview this morning.

Obama acknowledged for the first time that "the system didn't work the way it was supposed to" at last week's State Dinner, when an uninvited Virginia couple managed to get past several checkpoints and into the White House, where they shook hands with Obama and posed for photographs with others.

Even so, the president gave the men and women who protect him the highest praise, he told us in an interview that focused largely on the economy. USA Today