Desiree Rogers, social CEO for Obama

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As White House social secretary, Desiree Rogers finds herself the focus of subpoena talk among Congress members over the matter of uninvited guests at the White House state dinner held for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Bloomberg News notes: ‘In the first state dinner Rogers hosted as a White House social secretary, it is two Virginia residents accused of party crashing most remembered, instead of the arugula salad with onion-seed vinaigrette or the pumpkin pie tart’. ‘This is not the story they hoped would endure after the state dinner,’ said Dee Dee Myers, who served as press secretary to President Bill Clinton.

It’s not the kind of thing you might expect to happen, Myers added, ‘but in some ways you should anticipate potential problems like this.’

See the Swamp’s account of the social secretary’s new headache.

-- Mark Silva