The Virginia couple who breezed into Washington last week's state dinner without an invitation said today that they were "shocked and devastated" at having been branded White House Party Crashers.
Looking more aggrieved than contrite, Michaele and Tareq Salahi broke a week's public silence Thurs insist that they were in fact invited to the dinner and that the American public would be "extremely surprised" when details to support the claim emerged.
Those details are thought Thurs consist of an e-mail exchange between the Salahis and Michele Jones, a Pentagon liaison with the White House whom they approached to activate for an invitation to the event in honor of the Indian Prime Minister.
Ms. Jones, the first woman sergeant major of the U.S. Army Reserve, issued a statement through the White House saying that she was specifically told that the Salahis did not have tickets to Any part of the evening's activities and that in any case she "did not have the authority to authorize attendance, admittance or access ".
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