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Disgraced ex-Secret Service boss wanted to destroy White House cocaine – report

August 6, 2024 | | Print Article

Disgraced former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle reportedly sought to destroy the cocaine discovered at the White House.

According to multiple sources who spoke with RealClearPolitics‘ Susan Crabtree, after the Secret Service discovered cocaine at the White House in July of 2023, Cheatle worried it’d spark a media firestorm because of Hunter Biden’s presence at the White House.

As previously reported, Hunter, the son of President Joe Biden, was formerly a cocaine addict.

Cheatle reportedly wanted to destroy the cocaine and sweep the case under the rug, but that plan went by the wayside when a member of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division sent the cocaine off for testing.

“[A] Secret Service officer or agent called in the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Service Department, who evacuated the White House complex while they tested the white substance on site, determining it was cocaine,” according to Crabtree.

“Because the press was part of the evacuation, there was no way to hide the information about the discovery, and the Secret Service leaders quickly shifted to crisis communications mode,” Crabtree reported.

After the initial round of tests, the cocaine was shipped off to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center for further analysis.

Following the second round of tests, the Secret Service forwarded the cocaine to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s crime laboratory for fingerprint and DNA analysis.

“While there were no latent fingerprints detected, the FBI lab found some DNA material, according to three sources in the Secret Service community,” Crabtree noted.

“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.”

But instead of looking into this further, “Secret Service leaders, under pressure from Cheatle and other top agency officials, chose not to run additional searches for DNA matches or conduct interviews with the hundreds of people who work in the White House complex.”

“That’s because they didn’t want to know, or even narrow down the field of who it could be,” a source told Crabtree. “It could have been Hunter Biden, it could have been a staffer, it could have been someone doing a tour – we’ll never know.”

When Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi announced the conclusion of the Secret Service’s investigation, he reportedly said that interviewing all 500 possible suspects would use up too many resources and possibly infringe on people’s civil liberties.

“On July 12, the Secret Service received the FBI’s laboratory results, which did not develop latent fingerprints, and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons,” he said. “Therefore, the Secret Service is not able to compare evidence against the known pool of individuals.”

“There was no surveillance video footage found that provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area. Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered,” he added.

What’s known is that, sometime throughout this entire process, Cheatle tried to persuade officials in the Forensics Services Division to destroy the cocaine so that the Secret Service could close the case even earlier.

Furthermore, she was reportedly furious when the evidence wasn’t destroyed.

“A decision was made not to get rid of the evidence, and it really pissed off Cheatle,” one of Crabtree’s sources said.

But why was she so invested in the case? Possibly because she’s long been close with the Bidens.

“Cheatle became close to the Biden family while serving on Vice President Joe Biden’s protective detail – so close that Biden tapped Cheatle for the director job in 2022, in part because of her close relationship to First Lady Jill Biden,” Crabtree noted.

There’s more.

According to Crabtree’s sources, when the cocaine was discovered, Richard Macauley was serving as the acting chief of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division. Macauley, however, was never made the permanent chief of the division, and critics within the Secret Service suspect it’s because Cheatle resented him for not disposing of the cocaine.

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