Posted on 07/15/2023 11:13:56 AM PDT by Libloather
The Secret Service announced this week that the agency has finished its investigation into the mysterious baggie of cocaine that was found in the White House earlier this month with finding the culprit.
The agency said that the case was closed due to a lack of forensic evidence coupled with the fact that the class A drug was found an area in which around 500 people passed through at the time it was believed to have been discarded.
It was determined by the agency that because the cocaine amounted to around 0.007 ounces, meaning it would only be a misdemeanor offense in the District of Columbia, it would be a waste of public resources to interview 500 people.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Gugliemi told NBC News that conducting such a vast amount of interviews may also infringe on civil rights and that without physical evidence, a confession would likely be necessary.
'Yes, you could have a consensual interview. But we have no evidence to approach them,' Gugliemi said.
Former US Attorney and acting administrator of the DEA under President Barack Obama, Chuck Rosenberg, echoed Gugliemi's remarks telling NBC News that the agency has to make calls on what to investigate and what not to investigate.
'They could have done the interviews, but at the end of the day it's a long walk through dry sand. They have finite resources and it's OK for them to decide some things are worth their time and some things are not worth their time,' Rosenberg said.
Secret Service agents found the white powder during a routine White House sweep on July 2, in a heavily trafficked West Wing lobby where staff go in and out, and tour groups gather to drop their phones and other belongings.
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Has any leo agency ever been concerned about approaching anyone for interviews of a crime?
The SS should have hired someone that could and would do the job.
Every member of the SS needs to fired if this is true. EVERY ONE OF THEM
They knew it belonged to Hunter and they knew he’d never get prosecuted, so why waste the time?
Bingo. That’s my comment. Ithaca does manage to impart a sort of realpolitik.
But, if Trump were in office.....
They’re too busy tracking down and arresting grannies who toured the Capitol but left NO baggies a cocaine.
Tempest in a teapot.
So any drug pusher has a civil right to enter the white house and leave some samples lying around. And the SS would never be able to figure it out because they have no idea who comes and goes.
How about a drug test ? If the White House is high the country is in danger but the way the the Biden Admin has been going I think they’ve all always have been on drugs
hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
Nothing to see, because no one in the Administration wants to hear, see or have spoken anything about this. It just didn’t happen.
They may as well disband.
Heck, I believe it was found were the first responders said it was. Pretty easy to tell a library from a bunch of cubbies.
we have special counsel’s now we need special investigator’s to do the job regular investigators refuse to do.
But it wasn’t a waste of their time to find it, announce it and change the location it was found 5 times? Every inmate doing time for cocaine possession should be on the horn with their attorney telling them to appeal on a violation of their civil rights.
4X6 glossies, with red circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining at length, what is depicted.-AG
“Secret Service spokesman Anthony Gugliemi”
We definitely live in a hologram.
The guy even has “lie” in his name!
Grade “AAA” Bullshit
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