Secret Service is CLOSING White House cocaine investigation WITHOUT finding any suspects
Secret Service closes White House cocaine investigation WITHOUT finding suspects
- USSS told Congress they narrowed the list of possible suspects who brought cocaine into the White House to 500 people
- The agency has decided to close the investigation without finding the perpetrator
- Agents “just decided it’s just a weekend visitor… That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said
Furious Republicans have said the Secret Service will close the White House cocaine investigation without finding any suspects.
GOP Representative Tim Burchett said officers “just decided it’s just a weekend visitor.”
“It’s fake,” he added. “That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”
His comments came after the Secret Service notified members of Congress 11 days after the discovery.
Since July 2, when the cocaine was discovered, the Secret Service had been flooding surveillance footage from cameras stationed throughout the White House, but has still not been able to find a culprit.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has avoided the latest White House scandal by escaping to Europe for meetings with foreign leaders.
According to the secret service, no fingerprints or other DNA were found on the container with the cocaine. And there was less than an ounce of the illegal drug in the dime-sized ziplock bag.
Furious Republicans said Secret Service closes White House cocaine investigation with no suspects — and a narrow list of 500 people who could be responsible
GOP Representative Tim Burchett said officers “just decided it’s just a weekend visitor… That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen in my life”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Secret Service officials informed lawmakers at Thursday’s briefing that they had narrowed the list of suspected perpetrators to about 500 people.
“Did they drug-test this list of 500 potential suspects who brought an illegal substance — the drug cocaine — into the White House,” Greene told reporters after the briefing. “Their answer was no, and that they are not willing to do that.”
With no immediate answers from the USSS or the Biden administration about the cocaine discovery with nearly two weeks to investigate the matter, members of Congress demanded briefings.
Trump-era CBP director and former FBI agent Mark Morgan told DailyMail.com last week that the case is “straightforward” and could be resolved in 30 minutes.
Morgan and Rep. Burchett noted that there are cameras everywhere with facial recognition technology that could provide answers to who brought the cocaine into the White House.
Republican members of Congress are unlikely to be happy if the USSS closes the investigation without finding out who is responsible for bringing the illegal drug into the West Wing.
The White House continues to dodge questions related to the incident and the investigation — and the location of the discovery has changed three times over the course of a week
President Joe Biden managed to avoid the latest White House scandal when he escaped from Washington, D.C. for meetings across Europe this week.
The substance was found Sunday, July 2, prompting a hazmat evacuation of the White House while President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David for the long holiday weekend.
Now, 11 days after the discovery, Congress still doesn’t know how the drug became one of the safest places in the US — and USSS has no plans to provide definitive answers.
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman James Comer wrote to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle last week asking for a July 14 briefing, which took place Thursday morning.
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton also called for a briefing and in a public letter pressed Cheatle for information. The senator’s office, then reached by DailyMail.com, said they have not yet received a response from Cheatle.