Yesterday, the U.S. Secret Service reported that, lacking video footage and fingerprints, they have closed the investigation as to who left a bag of cocaine in the White House. The investigation began with the discovery of the cocaine on Sunday, July 2. Their statement read: “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.” Further, they said that the FBI laboratory test, which came back on July 12, “did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons.” Hence, they “will not be able to” determine who left the cocaine. (https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2023/07/official-statement-investigation-substance-found-white-house)
Up to now, various reports have placed the discovery of the bag in different locations. Yesterday it was reported that a briefing at a closed-door hearing puts the location as a storage locker (#50) and that the key for that locker is still missing. Those lockers are described as being used to deposit personal items not permitted in the secure area of the West Wing.
The quick closing of the investigation, with the lame excuse of “no evidence,” implies the FBI, unlike the public, has never even seen either of the TV series “Law and Order,” or “Forensic Files,” in which investigators would bring in the measly few hundred people on site in the relevant locations that day, and sweat it out of them on what and whom they saw. “No evidence”?
