White House closes gate crashing at state dinner case against Salahis

The White House has officially closed the case related to the Salahis,  the Virginia couple,  who gate crashed into the first state dinner of the Obama presidency hosted in honour of prime minister Manmohan Singh, a media report said today.

"Case closed. That's the verdict the White House has emphatically handed down on the embarrassing and troubling security breach a fame-craving Virginia couple performed during the Obama administration's first State Dinner on November 24," The Washington Post reported.

However, the  report stated that eyewitness accounts, a secret service criminal investigation, Congressional hearings and an Obama administration internal review depict a far more complicated set of circumstances.

Salahis have been subpoenaed by a Congressional Committee forcing them to appear before it on January 20 to explain before it the circumstances in which the couple entered the White House without an invitation.

"A month later, Tareq and Michaele Salahi's perplexing White House visit has revealed personnel failings and damage control manoeuvring in the administration, institutional vulnerabilities in the security agency, and the perils of celebrity culture and political gamesmanship in Washington," The Post wrote, saying that the entire episode leaves several questions unanswered for the White House.