Gibbs: Social Secretary Won’t Testify, New Procedures In Place For WH Holiday Parties

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that social secretary Desiree Rogers will not testify before a Congressional panel investigating the security breach at the state dinner.

Gibbs also said that starting last night when the first of the White House holiday parties began they implemented new procedures for a second level of checks.

He said that as the Secret Service reviewed its procedures that allowed Michaele and Tareq Salahi to get into the dinner last week without an invitation, White House staffers did a review of the internal process to make sure their own system supports the Secret Service.

At the party last night there were social office staff at security checkpoints to verify invitees in case there was confusion, he said.

“We’ve made those changes as of last night,” Gibbs said.

Reporters pressed whether Rogers was in any trouble for the security breach since social office staffers weren’t at the gate last week.

Gibbs said the president and first lady “think she has done a terrific and wonderful job,” and mocked the reporter who asked about Rogers, saying the scribe was like his young son.

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