A different kind of fireworks went off at the White House this Fourth of July weekend after a dime-bag of cocaine was discovered by U.S. Secret Service (USSS) personnel in a cell phone cubby in the West Wing.
The baggy of blow may have blown over in the media, had it not been for the fact that Hunter Biden was visiting the Big Guy for the holiday, leading many to speculate that the substance belonged to him.
Fueling the rumors is the fact that, after four days of searching for the cocaine’s rightful owner, reports are now that the culprit may never be found.
Biden laughs off reporters’ questions on White House cocaine; culprit unlikely to be found https://t.co/QORal7eGct via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) July 6, 2023
Former Border Commissioner and longtime FBI agent Mark Morgan finds the whole thing suspicious, given that the investigation should be “pretty straightforward.”
“An investigation like this is pretty straightforward. Everybody that enters the White House is manifested,” Morgan told DailyMail.com. “They know who comes in, they know when they came in, they’re checked, and there are video cameras everywhere.”
Morgan told the outlet that he has personally used the cubbies when, as Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) under former President Donald Trump, he attended meetings at the White House.
Users of the cubbies are given a physical key to lock their belongings up before entering areas such as the Oval Office or Situation Room.
Between the “forensic evidence, controlled access, cameras, witnesses, the manifest of who actually is coming to the White House, and who’s going through those areas, and a limited timeframe,” Morgan said, the mystery of the coke fiend’s identity should have been solved in “30 minutes.”
“They’ve got so much information,” he said. “Again, when I say 30 minutes, I’m being facetious, you know. Really my intent was… when it comes to serious investigations, this one’s a pretty straightforward investigation.”
In a top-priority investigation, the FBI agent said, “you get people, you download the tapes, you’re reviewing the tapes, you’re interviewing people.”
“My question is, how much of that has been done?” he said. “And a lot of that could be influenced by the White House.”
“This probably would go to the Deputy Chief of Staff’s purview to work with the Secret Service to coordinate,” Morgan told DailyMail.com. “So my question is the Secret Service saying, ‘Hey, we need to interview XYZ.’ Are they allowed to interview those people? Are they able to go in and pull surveillance tapes as they need? Are they able to talk to the people that they would normally need to talk to for this investigation without any roadblocks?”
Trump’s bold theory on owner of White House cocaine: ‘He looks like a crackhead to me’ https://t.co/29Cvgqu8MU via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) July 6, 2023
“I don’t know,” he said. “Those are good questions that I don’t have the answer to.”
Morgan noted that given that permanent staffers wouldn’t use the locked cubbies, the cocaine likely belonged to someone who was visiting the White House.
“That doesn’t mean it can’t be somebody high up in the administration,” he added, “because even as commissioner or a secretary, if you come into that area, and you had your cell phone, you would have to put your cell phone in that box.”
Still, he said, “I’m making an investigative assumption that it probably wasn’t someone that works permanently, day-in-day-out, at the White House, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be somebody in a senior-level position in the White House that was coming there for a meeting.”
He also dismissed the notion that the cocaine may have belonged to a maintenance worker, part of the cleaning staff, or a member of a construction crew.
“Yeah, none of those [staff] would be using that cubby,” Morgan said. “I mean, I just don’t see why a construction worker would use something like that.”
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Melissa Fine is the former executive editor of Casino Player, Strictly Slots, and Poker
Digest magazines. She is a UCLA graduate, news junkie, and dedicated Stargate SG-
1 fan. Melissa currently lives with her dog and two cats in a tiny town in the Sierra
Nevada foothills.
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