REPORT: Secret Service Boss Led Effort to Destroy White House Cocaine
We have to take a little trip back in time for this one.
Remember the cocaine that was found in the White House?
As it turns out, former Director of Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle was the one leading the effort to have the cocaine destroyed, according to a new report.
Get Rid of the Evidence
For weeks, everyone was hoping to see the Secret Service investigation reveal who had placed the cocaine in the White House.
Yet, the most surveilled building in the country somehow did not have any video evidence that could show who had placed the cocaine in the area.
A RealClearPolitics report claimed, “Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.”
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi pushed back on the report, stating, “This is false.
“The US Secret Service takes its investigative and protective responsibilities very seriously.
“There are retention policies for criminal investigations, and the Secret Service adhered to those requirements during this case.”
While the DNA and fingerprinting did not pinpoint a suspect, there was reportedly a DNA partial hit, but even that was not apparently followed up on by the Secret Service.
One source allegedly explained, “That’s because they didn’t want to know, or even narrow down the field of who it could be.
“It could have been Hunter Biden, it could have been a staffer, it could have been someone doing a tour – we’ll never know.”
At the time the investigation concluded, Guglielmi stated, “On July 12, the Secret Service received the FBI’s laboratory results, which 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.
“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.
“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.”
The report did not name any sources in regard to the report on the handling of the cocaine.