Americans who are largely convinced that every federal law enforcement agency is protecting the Bidens under the sun from prosecution and exposure will be even more sure of that following an announcement on Thursday from the Secret Service.
Though the White House is perhaps the most secure building in the entire country, protected by trained professionals wielding an impressive array of technology and surveillance equipment, the agency is now claiming that it just can’t find the culprit who brought cocaine into the building earlier this month.
In a statement after briefing members of Congress on the issue, the Secret Service said the cocaine was found on July 2 “inside a receptacle used to temporarily store electronic and personal devices prior to entering the West Wing.”
The agency went on to say it has been investigating “how this item entered the White House,” including a “methodical review of security systems and protocols.”
“This review included a backwards examination that spanned several days prior to the discovery of the substance and developed an index of several hundred individuals who may have accessed the area where the substance was found,” the Secret Service said.
The agency went on to claim that its investigators developed “a pool of known persons for comparison of forensic evidence gleaned from the FBI’s analysis of the substance’s packaging.”
The Secret Service also said it had gotten the FBI’s lab results on Wednesday and the effort “did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons.”
“Therefore, the Secret Service is not able to compare evidence against the known pool of individuals,” the agency claimed.
“There was no surveillance video footage found that provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area,” the Secret Service continued. “Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered.”
“At this time, the Secret Service’s investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence,” they said.
GOP lawmakers were outraged but not surprised.
“We do not know how many were tourists, individual citizens, or staffers, and they currently are not looking any further into those more than 500 people who entered that foyer of the West Wing during that weekend,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) said. “Instead, they are quickly wanting to close this investigation and move on to the next Biden crime crisis.”
“The only thing that the Secret Service did was conduct background searches for past drug use or conviction of the over 500 individuals that came through that weekend,” Boebert said. “They did not go further back in time, nor did their investigation produce any results to flag an individual person.”
She added: “I believe that every staffer who went into the White House that weekend…should be drug tested.”
