Photos obtained by @ABC News show the bag of cocaine found inside the White House complex inside a cubby near an entrance to the West Wing. https://t.co/64b2rhyQUL
— ABC News (@ABC) November 14, 2023
From ABC News:
The bag of cocaine found inside the White House complex was found inside a cubby near an entrance to the West Wing commonly used to give tours and where visitors are instructed to place phones and other belongings, photos obtained by ABC News show.
The photos show a small bag of cocaine inside of cubby #50, the photos show.
The Secret Service closed its investigation on July 12 after it said it could not identify a suspect.
The tours are by invitation only and normally led by a White House staffer. The Secret Service said hundreds of people had access to the area and that no security camera footage showed what happened. Congressional Republicans raised questions about that explanation, saying it raised security concerns.
When the cocaine was found on July 2, the White House was briefly shut down, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were outside of Washington at the time the cocaine was found.
Internal Secret Service emails also obtained in the FOIA show the FBI immediately took control of at the time was "white powder" for further testing at the FBI lab in Quanitco, Virginia.
"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 agency said in a lengthy statement in July. "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."
How convenient that there were no video cameras in the area, and no suspects have been identified. It's remarkable how the FBI can track down random individuals who attended the January 6th rally, yet they can’t find the person who brought cocaine into the White House. Does anyone actually believe that?
