Ousted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other top officials wanted cocaine discovered at the White House destroyed before further testing could be done, a new report claims.
Real Clear Politics reported on Monday that multiple confrontations and heated disagreements occurred after the baggie of cocaine was found in a West Wing locker on July 2, 2023.
The Secret Service has rejected this version, saying the cocaine investigation was handled appropriately.
“This is false,” spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told DailyMail.com of the allegation that Cheatle wanted the cocaine to disappear. “The U.S. Secret Service takes its investigative and protective responsibilities very seriously.”
“There are retention policies in place for criminal investigations and the Secret Service adhered to those requirements during this case,” he added.
The bag of cocaine was sent for “destruction” a day after the Secret Service’s 11-day investigation ended without identifying the culprit.
Ousted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other top officials wanted cocaine discovered at the White House destroyed before further testing could be done, a new report claims
Less than a gram of the drug was found in a dime-sized ziplock bag among storage cubbies located inside the West Executive Entrance of the White House on July 2, 2023.
Cheatle, who resigned after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, allegedly knew the cocaine discovery would bring with it a media firestorm because of the widely documented drug use of first son Hunter Biden, according to the RCP report.
Historically, such a discovery would not have come to light as the inner circle of protective agents assigned to the first family would be tasked with eliminating the “contraband,” three sources in the Secret Service community told the outlet.
President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David enjoying a pre-Fourth of July vacation at the time of the discovery, so it was a member of the Secret Service Uniformed Division who found the baggie in locker number 50.
DailyMail.com exclusively reported the first images of the bag of cocaine in November.
So instead of those agents finding the substance, it was discovered by a member of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division.
The officer who found the bag labelled it as a potentially dangerous substance, such as anthrax, although in documents obtained by DailyMail.com that individual “was certain it was drug-related”.
It is unclear when the alleged pressure campaign to destroy cocaine began.
RCP reported that at some point during the investigation, vault supervisor Matt White received a call from Cheatle or someone speaking on his behalf asking him to destroy the bag of cocaine because agency leaders wanted to close the case, two sources told the news outlet.
Cubicle No. 50 was where less than a gram of cocaine was found in the White House on July 2, prompting a hazmat situation and then an 11-day investigation.
An investigator displays the test used to determine the substance was cocaine and not something more dangerous like anthrax.
“The protocol is that regardless of whether we act on DNA evidence or not, we have to retain the evidence for up to seven years,” one source said. “It’s become quite a fuss.”
Traditionally, a Technical Safety Division investigator would have been sent to the scene to identify the substance, but the DC Instead, the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department was called.
The White House complex was then evacuated, which alerted the press.
The bag was initially sent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Biodefense and Countermeasures Analysis Center, but then ended up at the FBI’s Quantico crime lab.
Three sources told RCP that although no fingerprints were detected, the FBI lab found some DNA material.
The sources said the agency compared the DNA material to national criminal databases and “came up with a partial result,” meaning the DNA matched a blood relative of the person whose DNA was left on the bag.
“Congressional oversight committees must put White under oath and confirm the ‘partial confession,'” a source told RCP. “The FBI must then explain who the partial confession was made against and then determine which blood family member has ties to the White House or which person matching the partial confession was present at the White House that weekend.”
