{"id":59730,"date":"2025-06-10T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59730"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:05:18","slug":"the-investigation-that-really-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59730","title":{"rendered":"The Investigation That Really Wasn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Real Clear Politics<\/a> posted an article about the investigation into the cocaine found in the White House during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Two years after the U.S. Secret Service discovered a bag of cocaine in the White House in July, 2023, documents showing orders for its destruction within 24 hours after the agency closed the case are raising new questions about the scrupulousness of the investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency document<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cDestruction\u201d states that the bag of cocaine was sent to the Metropolitan Police Department for incineration. That document, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, doesn\u2019t display a date for the destruction. But other internal Secret Service records<\/a> show that the cocaine was tested by the Secret Service, the D.C. Fire Department hazmat technicians, and the FBI before being sent back to the Secret Service for storage on July 12. Two days later<\/a>, it was transferred to the D.C. police department for destruction. The Secret Service shut down the cocaine investigation 11 days after discovering it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The destruction of narcotics evidence must comply with environmental and safety regulations, and the D.C. police department has an Environmental Protection Agency-approved incinerator that federal agencies often use to destroy narcotics that are not involved in active legal cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n

D.C. police officials referred all questions about the cocaine\u2019s apparent destruction to the FBI. There\u2019s no entry or date for the cocaine\u2019s actual destruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes that there may be useful evidence that was not destroyed:<\/p>\n

While the cocaine bag found in the White House appears to have been destroyed, internal Secret Service documents<\/a> show that the agency retained and stored a second piece of evidence, an envelope of three tubes of DNA that the FBI attained from the plastic bag of cocaine. It\u2019s unclear how much DNA those tubes contain, though the Secret Service has stood by its statements that the FBI found insufficient DNA to pursue any investigative leads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the Secret Service closed its investigation into who left the cocaine in the White House on July 13, \u00a0the agency issued a statement explaining its decision. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi asserted that camera surveillance footage didn\u2019t provide any \u201cinvestigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited\u201d the cocaine in the White House, adding that FBI laboratory results \u201cdid not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient evidence was present for investigative comparisons.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

After correcting mistaken reports that the cocaine was found in the White House library, media reports then cited a Guglielmi statement that the cocaine was found in a \u201cWest Wing workspace.\u201d Days later, Guglielmi clarified further that it was found in a small locker in a vestibule near the West Executive Avenue entrance to the West Wing, a heavily trafficked area where visitors and lower-level staff store electronics before VIP tours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A FOIA-released internal Secret Service document<\/a> further muddied the waters by claiming that the cocaine was found in the \u201c[redacted] lobby floor,\u201d creating even more suspicion surrounding the location where the cocaine was first discovered. Sources familiar with the statement in a Secret Service Protective Division document said it was not a reference to the physical floor of a room, but the lobby level of the West Wing where the lockers were located in a vestibule leading into it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Secret Service has confirmed that \u201clocker 50,\u201d where the cocaine was allegedly left, has a missing key.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We may never know who brought the cocaine into the White House, but at least now we know that not everyone involved in the investigation was really looking for the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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