While the media’s been busy with a whirlwind of fresh headlines, a buried report just resurfaced that raises serious new questions about former President Joe Biden, former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, and how they handled one of the most bizarre scandals of his presidency.
A new report details the bag of cocaine found at the White House in July 2023.
According to investigative reporter Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics, who’s been digging into this from the start, new records reveal the Secret Service moved fast to destroy the evidence, just one day after the case was abruptly closed.
Furthermore, it seems the agency might have taken revenge against a senior official who opposed the destruction, a decision that Cheatle herself overruled.
Crabtree uncovered documents that “are raising new questions about the scrupulousness of the investigation.”
“A U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency document titled ‘Destruction’ states that the bag of cocaine was sent to the Metropolitan Police Department for incineration,” Crabtree reported.
“That document, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, doesn’t display a date for the destruction,” she added.
“But other internal Secret Service records 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, it was transferred to the D.C. police department for destruction. The Secret Service shut down the cocaine investigation 11 days after discovering it.”
When questioned about the fate of the bag, the Washington, D.C. police blamed the FBI.
But, even though the documents said the Metro Police were supposed to destroy the cocaine within 24 hours, there’s no documentation proving it ever actually happened.
Despite the purported destruction of the cocaine, no record exists, and there appears to be no desire for further investigation.
There was no serious effort to preserve the evidence, no transparency, and no accountability.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino now asserts that this situation is set to change.
“Well, I get a kick out of it on social media,” Bongino said.
“People say, ‘This case isn’t a big deal. I don’t care.’ Well, I care. … You don’t care that a [potentially] hazardous substance made its way into the White House? We didn’t know what it was, and we don’t seem to have answers? Well, we’re going to get them. I’ve got a great team on it.”
When the Secret Service closed its investigation on July 13 into who brought cocaine into the White House, the agency tried to explain its decision in a public statement.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi claimed there were no “investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited” the cocaine.
He also said FBI lab results “did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient evidence was present for investigative comparisons.”
But here’s the problem: neither the Secret Service nor the FBI has released those lab results to the public.
And according to forensic experts, the only definitive way to know if there was usable DNA on that baggie is to test it again.
“The only way to really tell, is to test it again and see what happens,” said Gary Clayton Harmor, chief forensic DNA analyst at the Serological Research Institute in Richmond, California.
“Some labs will test anything, and others are more reluctant if they think it’s not a good enough sample to [test against national DNA databases],” the analyst said.
“The FBI, knowing them, they’re probably very conservative, and it may be that they said, ‘Nope, there’s not enough here to do anything meaningful with.’ It really depends on who’s doing the testing and how they did it,” he said.