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Secret Service Refuses to Reveal White House Cocaine Information after FOIA Request
Slay News ^
| August 1, 2023
| David Lindfield
Posted on 08/01/2023 5:36:43 AM PDT by george76
The U.S. Secret Service has responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by refusing to hand over details of its investigation into the cocaine found in the White House.
The FOIA request, for a list of people possibly involved in the White House cocaine incident, was filed by the Heritage Foundation.
The Secret Service rejected the request by claiming that such records are outside its authority.
The Heritage Foundation filed a FOIA request after the Secret Service found “no suspects” and closed the investigation into the cocaine discovery in mid-July.
The FOIA request seeks the list of hundreds of individuals who may have accessed the area where the substance was found.
In a letter from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the agency denied the request.
“As your request seeks records reflecting visitors or related information concerning the Office of the President, please be advised that these records are not Secret Service agency records subject to the FOIA,” the letter reads.
“Rather, these records are governed by the Presidential Records Act … and remain under the exclusive legal custody and control of the White House.”
The DHS’s response to the FOIA request caused The Daily Signal, a news outlet of the Heritage Foundation, to suggest that the Secret Service may have “never created such a list in the first place.”
Steve Bradbury, a distinguished fellow at the think tank, dismissed the DHS arguments for not turning over the visitor list.
Bradbury points to the legal difference between an agency record and a presidential record.
The distinction is usually based on “who generates the record and whose business the record reflects,” he told the outlet.
...
“If it’s an agency record, it’s subject to FOIA.
“If it’s a White House record, it’s covered by the Presidential Records Act.”
Bradbury said that the key question is whether the Secret Service used the White House logs to create its own new record.
...
If the Secret Service did use the White House records to create a “new document on its systems, which was its own list of suspects that it generated, that new document should” be available via a FOIA request, he said.
However if the Secret Service did not create a new document, it would suggest that the agency didn’t take the investigation seriously, Bradbury noted.
The Heritage Foundation isn’t dropping the matter, however, and confirmed that it intends to appeal the rejection.
This isn’t the first time that the Secret Service has turned down a FOIA request on the White House cocaine issue.
Jason Leopold, an investigative reporter at Bloomberg, had earlier asked for information such as emails, text messages, suspicious activity reporting, intelligence bulletins, letters, directives, and other such material referencing the cocaine found at the White House.
On July 11, the DHS notified Leopold that his request was denied.
“[There are] no records or documents available to you at this time,” the DHS said.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 3rdworldgovernment; bananarepublic; bidencrimefamily; cocaine; creepstate; deepstate; foia; freedom; hunterbiden; obstruction; policestate; secretservice; singlepartystate; whitehouse
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posted on
08/01/2023 5:36:43 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
The Deep State aka The Democrats’ Dictatorship
To: george76
Can’t use ongoing investigation.... how about we turn all the records over to Mongo and they get to deal with Mongo. Maybe a CandiGram would work.... 🧐
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posted on
08/01/2023 5:40:11 AM PDT
by
Lockbox
(politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
To: george76
Another cover up to protect someone who’s in “The Club.”
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posted on
08/01/2023 5:42:33 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: unixfox
This tells you all you need to know. The blow was Hunter’s.
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posted on
08/01/2023 5:47:09 AM PDT
by
VTenigma
(Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
To: unixfox
The WH & Secret Secret probably are not turning over a list of suspects because they already know who the guilty are...don’t need any “suspects”.
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posted on
08/01/2023 5:48:07 AM PDT
by
oldtech
To: george76
Is anyone surprised that the Secret Service is as corrupt as the DOJ and FBI?
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posted on
08/01/2023 5:51:09 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(This Space For Rent)
To: george76
Take this to SCOTUS. It is OUR HOUSE and we deserve to know who was doing blow in the People’s Basement!
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posted on
08/01/2023 5:51:22 AM PDT
by
Shady
(The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
To: george76
Our current government: “..Cocaine incident?!?.. WHAT cocaine incident??…”
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posted on
08/01/2023 5:56:08 AM PDT
by
joethedrummer
(We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
To: george76
They like much of our government are literally enemies of the good people of this country. It’s astounding, really. At least to me. I’ve seen these institutions and agencies go from revered status to outright foes.
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posted on
08/01/2023 5:58:35 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
( )
To: george76
Secret Service answers to no one.
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posted on
08/01/2023 6:02:25 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
One argument in favor of the cocaine not having been Hunter's is, would he really have not finished it off?
It's more likely Kamala's, Joe's, or one of their lawyers'.
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- Secret Service Refuses to Reveal White House Cocaine Information after FOIA Request [08/01/2023]
- "Let Me Just Say a Friend Called Me" – Dan Bongino Reveals Latest Insider Info on Biden White House Cocaine Scandal (VIDEO) [07/20/2023]
- 10 Absurd Assumptions You Have To Swallow To Believe The White House-Cocaine Failure Theater [07/20/2023]
- Exclusive – Donald Trump Jr. on White House Cocaine Investigation: 'If I Was Within 1,000 Miles of D.C., It Would Be a Real Problem' [07/19/2023]
- GOP Congressman: Secret Service Blew Up Baggy of Cocaine and Destroyed All DNA Evidence (VIDEO) [07/19/2023]
- Dan Bongino: Secret Service Agents Are 'Furious' with White House and 'Know' Who's Behind Cocaine [07/18/2023]
- The Secret Service has reportedly destroyed the mystery cocaine baggie found in the White House, ending any chance of figuring out who put it there [07/18/2023]
- Former Secret Service EMBARRASSED By White House Cocaine Cover-Up [07/18/2023]
- Rep. Burchett to Newsmax: Secret Service 'Destroyed' WH Cocaine Bag, DNA [07/17/2023]
- Biden Blames White House Cocaine On Black Guy Who Lived There Before [07/17/2023]
- WATCH: Tucker Carlson's take on White House cocaine is STRAIGHT-freakin'-fire and LOL [07/17/2023]
- Kirby: White House 'Did the Best They Could' with Cocaine Investigation [07/17/2023]
- Senator Cotton: Secret Service Did Not Ask Hunter Biden About Cocaine Found In WH [07/17/2023]
- Secret Service knows who brought Cocaine to White House despite claims to the contrary: report..."We've known since last week," the source said. [07/17/2023]
- White House Cocaine Investigation Closed [semi-satire] [07/15/2023]
- REVEALED: Secret Service REFUSED to interview any of 500 suspects in White House cocaine scandal - claiming it was a waste of public resources and infringe civil rights [07/15/2023]
- Mailman Media Releases New "Cocaine" Single About Hunter Biden's Addiction and Business Crimes [07/14/2023]
- Media Shills: The View Claims Republicans 'Planted' the Cocaine in the White House [07/14/2023]
- VIDEO: Secret Service Cocaine Coverup Almost Universally Mocked [07/14/2023]
- Report Contradicts Secret Service Claim No Fingerprints Were Found on White House Cocaine Baggie [07/14/2023]
- Yeah, right - the White House can find Bin Laden lurking in a remote Pakistan compound… but not a cocaine culprit under its nose. How much longer will we let them take us for fo [07/14/2023]
- EXCLUSIVE: Life's NOT such a beach for Hunter: Biden's embattled first son hits the Malibu coast - as his lawyer sends Trump a cease and desist letter demanding he stop saying the Whi [07/13/2023]
- Secret Service: Cocaine Found Wasn't First Time Drugs Discovered in Biden White House [07/13/2023]
- AS PREDICTED: Secret Service Concludes Cocaine Investigation – No Suspect Identified – 'Cocaine Was Found in a Blind Spot For Surveillance Cameras' [07/13/2023]
- 'How Convenient': Secret Service Unable to Identify White House Cocaine Smuggler [07/13/2023]
- Secret Service Hands Gift To Biden, Ends White House Cocaine Probe Without Identifying Suspect [07/13/2023]
- Secret Service CLOSES White House cocaine investigation: Biden administration is accused of COVER-UP over failure to catch suspect who left drugs in West Wing locker - despite securit [07/13/2023]
- Secret Service Unable To Find White House Cocaine Suspect [07/13/2023]
- Secret Service Unable To Find White House Cocaine Suspect [07/13/2023]
- Secret Service declines to honor records request for White House cocaine docs [07/12/2023]
- After Discovering Cocaine In The White House, Biden Promises To Fix Immigration, Inflation, The Ukraine War, Student Debt, Climate Change, Hotel Fees, Infrastructure, Balance The Budg [07/11/2023]
- The Cocaine in the White House is Bigger than any Biden* Scandal Yet [07/11/2023]
- VIDEO: Meet White House Cocaine Suspect #2 [07/08/2023]
- Ted Cruz: Cocaine Found in White House 'Probably Isn't Hunter's' Despite Drug Problem [07/08/2023]
- Biden's National Security Advisor hints construction workers could have brought in cocaine [07/08/2023]
- Biden's National Security Advisor hints construction workers could have brought in cocaine because the Situation Room near where it was found is under renovations - and hasn't been us [07/08/2023]
- Cocaine Mystery Unsolvable [semi-satire] [07/08/2023]
- MSNBC's Mitchell on White House Cocaine: This Is 'Pretty Wild' [07/07/2023]
- White House Calls Asking If Cocaine Belonged to Joe or Hunter 'Incredibly Irresponsible,' But Doesn't Answer [07/07/2023]
- KJP Calls Out "Incredibly Irresponsible" Question About Cocaine Found In White House: "The Biden Family Was Not Here" [07/07/2023]
- 'A Shameful Moment': House Oversight Committee Launches Probe into Cocaine at the Biden White House [07/07/2023]
- I'm not saying Hunter Biden snorted cocaine at the White House but if he did, I would expect it to look exactly like this. [07/07/2023]
- China: White House Cocaine Scandal Proves America's Status as 'Drug-Infested Nation' [07/07/2023]
- There's absolutely ZERO chance anyone other than a family member brought that cocaine inside the White House complex. No chance that would make it past the mag/security checkpoints. [07/07/2023]
- Rudy Giuliani says he should be hired to find culprit in White House cocaine case [07/07/2023]
- MSNBC: Cocaine Was Found in a 'Limited Access Place' Near the WH Situation Room — 'Average People Just Can't Get In There' [07/07/2023]
- White House cocaine disarray as story keeps changing and one faction implies Kamala might be the fall-gal and she surrenders to hysterical laughter [07/07/2023]
- The White House That Tracked Down Grannies After Capitol Riot Wants You To Believe Cocaine Caper Has Them Stumped [07/06/2023]
- Federal Top Men Say Finding Source of West Wing Cocaine Will Be Too Difficult [07/06/2023]
- Experts baffled by White House invoking Hatch Act to dodge Hunter cocaine question: 'ridiculous' [07/06/2023]
- White House cocaine was found near the Situation Room and NOT in the West Wing visitor entrance: Drug story changes for the SECOND time as Secret Service now says dime bag was found i [07/06/2023]
- The Cocaine-Gate Inside Scoop [07/06/2023]
- Media Shill: "There's no way": Kayleigh McEnany rejects Trump's baseless claim that WH cocaine was Hunter Biden's [07/06/2023]
- White House Refuses to Say Whether or Not Cocaine Belonged to Joe or Hunter Biden [07/06/2023]
- Cameras, visitor logs searched after cocaine found at White House (Note the laughable COVERUP) [07/06/2023]
- After watching this video from the White House 4th of July celebration, I literally have no idea who could've possibly brought cocaine to the White House [07/06/2023]
- With All Its Powers And Technology, The Federal Government Is Unlikely To Figure Out Who Brought Cocaine To Biden's White House [07/06/2023]
- Ex-CBP head: 'Literally should take' about 30 minutes to ID who brought cocaine into White House [07/06/2023]
- VIDEO: Media Wants You to Forget Cocaine Was Found in White House LIBRARY [07/06/2023]
- Bookmakers peg Hunter Biden as favorite in White House cocaine whodunit [07/06/2023]
- Eight reasons to believe a coverup is underway on the cocaine found in the White House [07/06/2023]
- Should Columbo Investigate the White House Cocaine Case? [07/06/2023]
- Biden LAUGHS OFF White House cocaine scandal and refuses to answer reporters' questions - while press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre suggests drugs found in West Wing belonged to a visi [07/06/2023]
- There's no hiding now! Secret Service orders DNA and fingerprint analysis of 'dime-sized' cocaine baggie found in the West Wing [07/05/2023]
- Politico Helpfully Preparing the Public: 'White House Cocaine Culprit Unlikely To Be Found' [07/05/2023]
- Karine Jean-Pierre lined with questions about cocaine found in White House [07/05/2023]
- Secret Service Confirms Cocaine Found In White House Following Hunter Biden Visit [07/05/2023]
- UPDATE: The Cocaine Stash at the Biden White House Was Hidden in a "Cubby" Located in a Storage Facility in the West Wing – NOT the Libary [07/05/2023]
- Pence: We Ought to Know in Real-Time Who Brought and Left Cocaine on a Table in the Residence in the White House [07/05/2023]
- VIDEO: Mystery Over WHO Left Cocaine in White House [07/05/2023]
- White House cocaine mystery deepens as Secret Service says it was found in the West Wing and NOT the library: Joe and Hunter's July 4 celebrations clouded in controversy as agents try [07/05/2023]
- Plot THICKENS on cocaine found at the White House with D*MNING connection to Hunter Biden (thread) [07/05/2023]
- White House Cocaine Story Takes Another Bizarre Twist as It Changes Again [07/04/2023]
- White powder found at White House [inside the West Wing] identified as cocaine -source [07/04/2023]
- Cocaine found at White House, conservatives quip Hunter Biden may be the culprit [07/04/2023]
- Secret Service Find Ziploc Bag of Powdered Cocaine in West Wing of White House, No One Knows How It Got There [07/04/2023]
- Suspicious powder found at the White House when Biden was gone was cocaine, AP sources say [07/04/2023]
- Biden IGNORES questions (again) from press after cocaine was found in the White House: President slams gun violence and says teachers shouldn't be armed as Secret Service investigates [07/04/2023]
- In an American first, cocaine was found in the White House [07/04/2023]
- Where's Hunter? White House Evacuated After Cocaine Found [07/03/2023]
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posted on
08/01/2023 6:05:53 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: george76
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posted on
08/01/2023 6:14:24 AM PDT
by
dead
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
To: george76
The fbi is actually the DPPSD. (The "Democrat Party's Private Security Detail.") I see the secret service also belongs to that demonic club.
Good to know.
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posted on
08/01/2023 6:16:51 AM PDT
by
LouAvul
(Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe someone should ask the press secretary if it is hers.
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posted on
08/01/2023 7:57:00 AM PDT
by
Sertorius
(A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
To: LIConFem
SS is MORE CORRUPT than the DOJ and FBI!! HARD to do!
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posted on
08/01/2023 9:20:09 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Sertorius
The “PIXIE PROPANGANDIST” is what Kennedy called her!!
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posted on
08/01/2023 9:21:34 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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