So The Story's Changed Yet Again!

Nothing new, of course, we're just living in the same alternate universe where there was a desperate race to locate the missing Titan submersible before the oxygen ran out. The latest version of the White House cocaine baggie has morphed from "in the residence library" to "in a cubby in a West Wing holding area", and now to "downstairs in the West Wing near the Situation Room":

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell acknowledged Thursday that contrary to the idea that a random tourist left cocaine in the White House in what officials have described as a “heavily trafficked” area, the cocaine was actually found in a “limited access place” near the Situation Room.

At this point, there's less and less credibility for each update, while the White House press office is fumbling over the Hatch Act. That in turn suggests to me that they're as much in the dark as anyone else. I would surmise the strategy for now is to act confused until it all goes away.

The issue of where it was found is probably the wrong question anyhow. As far as I can tell, Hunter's cocaine use is an open secret. The photo above, which I picked up off a post on as Conservative Inc site, doesn't have a date or event attached to it, but it shows Hunter dressed in black tie just as he's passed some type of uniformed security guard, appearing for all the world to be taking a bump of cocaine on his way into the main event.

Two Twitter posts containing versions of White House balcony video from July 4 portray Joe's and Dr Jill's body language telegraphing that they're fully aware of the situation.

I’m not saying Hunter Biden snorted cocaine at the White House but if he did, I would expect it to look exactly like this. pic.twitter.com/n3VykREfgq

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 5, 2023

As Hunter Biden steps away Joe and Jill look concerned but ignore it in the end. pic.twitter.com/ZwjxcVbVk8

— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) July 5, 2023

Right-wing commentator Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, explains the issue in a nutshell:

There’s absolutely ZERO chance anyone other than a family member brought that cocaine inside the White House complex. No chance that would make it past the mag/security checkpoints. Family bypasses those.

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) July 5, 2023

He's gone into more detail elsewhere and made the point that "protectees", that is, the president, vice president, and members of their families, are escorted past all checkpoints by Secret Service special agents, in part because the agents carry firearms that wouldn't get past metal detectors. For others, the checkpoints include drug sniffing dogs.

But as Bongino suggests, the pool of likely suspects, assuming family members are the likeliest, expands beyond just Hunter. Vice president Harris and her husband can't be eliminated, and the vice president in particular has something of a cackling, party-girl persona. Joe's daughter Ashley was on the balcony at the July 4 celebration, she's been to rehab for her own addiction, and we don't currently know her whereabouts over the prior weekend.

Others have suggested White House security insiders already know who brought the baggie in, just as both the US Navy and the Royal Navy knew what happened to the Titan submersible the moment it imploded. I'm leaning in that direction myself. But if that's the case, I have two questions.

First, let's assume the news gets out, which I'm not sure will ever happen, but if it does, what happens to the one who's identified? If a celebrity gets busted for this sort of thing, there's usually just a public mea culpa, a promise not to do it again, and a trip to rehab. If it's Ashley, that would probably work. If it's Hunter, well, nothing new, but it might affect his diversion program for the lie on his gun application, which requires him to stay sober, and he could maybe even get jail time -- but since Joe is running the show, probably not. He'll just go back to rehab. What else is new?

If it's the vice president, on the other hand, that's definitely something new. She would almost certainly need to resign in a deal much like Spiro Agnew's -- possession of cocaine on federal property is five years in prison for a first offense, any amount. They'd waive the sentence in exchange for her guilty plea and resignation. That would probably have the greatest impact, but none of the possibilities would affect Joe directly.

The second question is even bigger, though: how do people at that level get their drugs? All of these people have Secret Service protection, at least theoretically. Hunter, as the immediate family of Joe when he was vice president, would have had it from January 2009 to January 20l7, when he was driving fast cars on crack and sometimes wrecking them, cavorting with Russian hookers, and buying drugs in industrial amounts. How did the Secret Service look the other way?

How is the Secret Service looking the other way now? Just the photo and video evidence we see, leaving aside the baggie near the Sit Room, suggests he has a massive cocaine habit, not just a bump now and then. These are significant amounts of narcotics being trafficked into the White House. How has the fix been put in? Someone had to enable Hunter, and irrespecive of one particular baggie, that's happening. The level of corruption in the Secret Service is likely the real hidden story here.