And Back To The White House Baggie

According to the New York Post,

Photos have emerged of cocaine that was found last summer at the White House — before the Secret Service executed a quick investigation into the matter without arresting a suspect. A small baggy containing roughly one gram of the white, powdery substance is visible in locker No. 50 near the White House’s West Executive entrance, according to photos the Daily Mail received after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the protective agency.

The Secret Service concluded its probe just 11 days after the cocaine was discovered by an agent sweeping the West Wing on the night of Sunday, July 2, forcing a brief evacuation and a response by a hazmat team before the substance could be identified.

This at least clarifies one part of the confusion surrounding the story:

1. July 4: The New York Times reported the substance was found in the White House “library.”
2. July 5: Reuters reported the substance was found in a “cubby hole” near the Situation Room.
3. July 13: The Associated Press reported the baggie was found in the “lobby.”

The photos at least depict it in trhe cubby, but Jesse Watters isn't buying the story:

Primetime thinks the coke may have been planted in the cubby after it was found in the library.

In other words, it took the Secret Service several days to get its story straight to take suspicion off the Biden family. Further,

Watters reported that the original narrative stated that no DNA was recovered from a bag of cocaine found at the White House, leading to the destruction of the bag.

However, the FOIA documents suggest the presence of three tubes of DNA, conflicting with the Secret Service’s initial reports. It appears the DNA samples were not only found but also preserved in an evidence vault.

“There’s more evidence that they didn’t destroy: an envelope with three tubes of DNA,” said Watters.

“Where did they get the DNA from? They got the DNA off the baggie. So the Secret Service lied, and so did the White House. They did find DNA on the baggie, and the DNA was processed and has been moved to an evidence vault for preservation.

The current Director of the Secret Service is Kimberly Cheatle, which is an unfortunate surname. She served as head of the the Vice Presidential Protective Division in the Obama administration when Joe Biden was vice president, but she left the Secret Service in 2018 to become senior director of global security at PepsiCo. Joe seemed to think well enough of her to give her a Presidential Rank Award for exceptional performance in 2021, and in September of last year, he brought her back to the Secret Service as Director.

As of September 2022, stories began to emerge of Hunter's art sales, while his legal problems over his tax issues and the gun permit application grew more critical. At roughly that time, although nobody can say exactly when, Hunter moved into the White House, as I discussed in this post. It appears that Ms Cheatle's handling of sensitive issues with Secret Service agents while Joe was vice president, such as his tendency to go skinny dipping in front of female agents, as well as the agent who almost punched Joe out for groping his girlfriend convinced Joe that she was right for the job:

In 2017, the Gateway Pundit exclusively reported that a Secret Service agent was suspended for a week in 2009 for shoving then-Vice President Joe Biden after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him.

The situation got so heated, a source who was a Secret Service agent at the time told TGP, that others had to step in to prevent the agent from hitting the then-Vice President.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the agent asserted that, “we had to cancel the VP Christmas get together at the Vice President’s house because Biden would grope all of our wives and girlfriend’s asses.” The annual party was for agents and Navy personnel who were tasked with protecting the Biden family.

The Secret Service has now inadvertently confirmed our report to Judicial Watch, who has filed a lawsuit after the Secret Service failed to respond to a July 14, 2020 administrative appeal challenging its claim that all files related to the 2009 altercation, “ha[d] been destroyed,” due to “retention standards.”

It appears that the Biden family has consistently created situations with the Secret Service that require extreme sensitivity, including most recently the Biden family dogs that repeatedly attack agents. Somehow Ms Cheatle impressed Joe with her ability to finesse such issues while he was vice president, and he brought her back, possibly in the context of Hunter's move into the White House last year.

My sense of things has always been that the Biden family detail puts agents in difficult situations, especially when they have to accompany Hunter and look the other way when he does drugs. My surmise is that l'affaire baggie prompted even Ms Cheatle to lay down the law: if Hunter stayed in the White House, there would be limits to what the Secret Service could continue to do to cover for Hunter and Joe, and Hunter quietly moved out later this past summer.

If nothng else, the shooting by the Secret Service detail protecting Naomi Biden Sunday night, which as far as I can tell would have resulted in the dismissal of a civilian police officer, gives an indication of the general quality of the agents assigned to the Biden family detail. Those currently assigned have to put up with dog bites and pretending they don't see Hunter snorting coke. Better agents seem to be able to wangle other assignments.