Cirque Du Salahi: Be Careful Who You Trust (16 page)

The Fools on the Hill

The White House didn’t want any more nonsense news to surface about lack of security at the president’s residence. The Secret Service had been stung badly by the event (three of their agents were placed on indefinite suspension) and the agency certainly wanted the story to die down too. But within the membership of the House Homeland Security Committee there was a whole different kind of attitude. There was a big front page, top-of-the-newscast story going on and committee members wanted a piece of it. They wanted to appear as if they were fully engaged.