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The House Homeland Security Committee, which oversees the Secret Service, has voted to subpoena Tareq and Michaele Salahi. Desiree Rogers, the White House social secretary, was rejected for a subpoena, 17 to 12. Rep. Peter King plans to hold a closed-door session with her following the testimony of the Salahis because he feels that she is "an absolutely essential component" of the investigation.
We're wondering two things:
1. Why isn't Michele Jones, the woman with whom Tareq Salahi was exchanging emails about the State dinner, also being subpoenaed?
2. Why did Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican from Alabama, switch his vote? Why subpoena Mr. Salahi and not Mrs. Salahi? Is this one of those women-as-helpless-appendages-of-men things?
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The answer to Question #2 is in the lead line of the story. The House HS Committee . . . has voted to subpoena Tareq and Michaele Salahi. Also, they are to appear before the House, which is not court.
The second question doesn't make sense. He switched to subpoena the wife and not Tareq. So, no it's most certainly not one of those women-as-helpless-appendages-of-men things.
In addition, and ominously, it turns out that Tareq Salahi, the polo-playing intruder, is a Palestinian nationalist with ties to the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) , a pro-Palestine lobby demanding the “right of return†for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants. The “right of return†has long been considered the backdoor to Israel’s destruction. But not only that: ATFP President Ziad Asali is an America-basher who blamed 9/11 on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Asali was a lead U.S. official to PLO terrorist Yassir Arafat’s funeral in 2004. And in a position paper in 2007, the ATFP called for a power-sharing agreement at the Palestinian Authority, which would have included the State Department’s designated-terrorist group, Hamas.