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3. Michaele and Tareq Salahi

(Samantha Appleton/White House via Getty Images)

President Obama shakes hands with Michaele Salahi of Virginia at the receiving line in the Blue Room.

State dinner gate crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi. A House committee is probing how they got in without an invitation and past the White House Social Office.

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