The bad news keeps piling up for the Secret Service with no end in sight.
Now the embattled agency is back in the hot seat.
And the Secret Service’s cocaine scandal just blew open again after this new revelation.
Cocaine scandal reemerges after new Secret Service revelation
A baggie filled with cocaine was discovered at the White House over the Fourth of July weekend last year.
Hunter Biden was immediately at the top of any list of potential suspects because of his long-running struggles with addiction, including the use of crack cocaine.
But the Secret Service claimed they conducted an investigation but came out and said they couldn’t identify the culprit.
The White House is the most heavily secure building in the world, with cameras everywhere, a secure check-in, and thorough background checks on anyone who enters the building.
It appeared that this scandal would be successfully swept under the rug.
But RealClearPolitics political correspondent Susan Crabtree revealed that former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle – who resigned in disgrace after former President Donald Trump’s near assassination attempt – and other top leaders in the agency wanted to destroy the cocaine.
Three sources told her that the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division fought to keep the cocaine from being destroyed.
Secret Service leadership buried the cocaine scandal
Cheatle and then-deputy Secret Service director Ronald Rowe – now acting director – pulled a Uniformed Division agent off the cocaine investigation after the agent wanted to conduct a thorough crime scene investigation.
The First Family was at Camp David for the weekend when the discovery was made but it was revealed that Hunter Biden had been staying at the White House.
Secret Service investigators sent the bag where the cocaine was found to an FBI crime lab for fingerprint and DNA testing.
The FBI allegedly couldn’t get any fingerprints but they did find a partial hit on the DNA.
“Several sources, citing private statements by a special agent in the Forensics Services Division who supervised the vault containing the cocaine evidence, said the agency ran the DNA material against national criminal databases and ‘got a partial hit.’ The term ‘partial hit’ is vague in this context, but in forensics lingo usually means law enforcement found DNA matching a blood relative of a finite pool of people,” RealClearPolitics reported.
Cheatle and Secret Service leadership decided not to run additional tests or conduct any interviews with anyone working at the White House.
“That’s because they didn’t want to know, or even narrow down the field of who it could be,” a source told RealClearPolitics. “It could have been Hunter Biden, it could have been a staffer, it could have been someone doing a tour – we’ll never know.”
The Secret Service claimed that interviewing the nearly 500 people working at the White House would stretch resources thin and that the lack of a fingerprint made an investigation worthless.
“A decision was made not to get rid of the evidence, and it really pissed off Cheatle,” a Secret Service source stated.
Cheatle got the job as Secret Service director with the support of First Lady Jill Biden and her staff.
Now the agency is under fire again after it was revealed the Secret Service buried a scandal that could have done serious political damage to the Biden White House.
