Fired Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other top officials wanted cocaine found in the White House destroyed before further investigation could take place, a new report finds.
Real Clear Politics reported Monday that several heated confrontations and disagreements arose after the bag of cocaine was found in a West Wing locker on July 2, 2023.
The Secret Service disputes this story, claiming the cocaine investigation was conducted properly.
“This is false,” spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told DailyMail.com of the allegation that Cheatle wanted to get rid of the cocaine. “The U.S. Secret Service takes its investigative and protective responsibilities very seriously.”
“There are retention periods for criminal investigations and the Secret Service complied with those requirements in this case,” he added.
The bag of cocaine was sent for “destruction” a day after the Secret Service’s 11-day investigation concluded without identifying the perpetrator.
Fired Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other top officials wanted cocaine found in the White House destroyed before further investigation could be conducted, a new report claims.
Less than a gram of the drug was found in a dime-sized ziplock bag among storage compartments in the West Executive Entrance of the White House on July 2, 2023
Cheatle, who resigned after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, reportedly knew the cocaine discovery would spark a media storm because of his eldest son Hunter Biden’s widely publicized drug use, the RCP report said.
Historically, such a discovery would never have come to light because the inner ring of security agents assigned to the first family would clean up “contraband,” three sources within the Secret Service community told the news outlet.
President Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David on a Fourth of July vacation at the time of the discovery. It was a member of the Secret Service’s Uniforms Division who found the bag in locker No. 50.
DailyMail.com exclusively reported the first images of the bag of cocaine in November.
So instead of the agents finding the substance, it was discovered by a member of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division.
The officer who found the bag labeled it as a potentially dangerous substance, like Anthrax. However, in documents obtained by DailyMail.com, the officer was “confident it was drug related.”
It is unclear when the alleged pressure campaign to destroy the cocaine began.
RCP reported that at one point during the investigation, the vault supervisor, Matt White, received a call from Cheatle or someone speaking on her behalf, asking him to destroy the bag of cocaine because agency leaders wanted to close the case, two sources told the news outlet.
Cubbie #50 was the scene where less than a gram of cocaine was found in the White House on July 2, prompting a Hazmat situation and subsequent 11-day investigation
An investigator holds up the test used to determine that the substance was cocaine and not something more dangerous like Anthrax
The protocol is, whether you act on the basis of the [DNA] Whether it’s a hit or not, we still have to keep the evidence for up to seven years,” a source said. “It was a big drama.”
Traditionally, an investigator from the Technical Security Department would have been sent to the scene of the crime to identify the substance, but the DC Instead, the fire department and emergency medical services were called.
The White House complex was subsequently evacuated, alerting the press.
The bag was initially sent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, but then ended up in Quantico, at the FBI’s forensics lab.
Three sources told RCP that no fingerprints were found, but that the FBI lab did find some DNA evidence.
Sources said the agency compared the DNA evidence to national criminal databases and had a “partial match,” meaning the DNA matched a blood relative of the person whose DNA was found on the bag.
“The Congressional oversight committees need to put White under oath and confirm the ‘partial attack,’” a source told RCP. “The FBI then needs to explain who the partial attack was against, and then determine which blood relative has ties to the White House or which person consistent with the partial attack was in the White House that weekend.”
