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#28384678 - 07/04/23 10:40 AM (10 months, 9 days ago) |
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Cocaine reportedly found in White House as Secret Service opens investigation July 4, 2023 - The Guardian
If confirmed, it would not be the first time illegal drugs were brought into the executive mansion, according to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson
A preliminary field test on a white substance found in the White House library has reportedly come up positive for cocaine, law enforcement authorities said late on Monday, and the US Secret Service is investigating how it entered 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The presence of the substance – which has been sent out for further testing – came to light when a firefighter with the Washington DC department’s hazardous materials team radioed: “We have a yellow bar saying cocaine hydrochloride,” the Washington Post first reported.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Post that the discovery led to an elevated security alert and a brief evacuation of the executive mansion after it was found during a routine round of inspection.
Guglielmi said there is “an investigation into the cause and manner” of how the substance entered the White House. At the time, Joe Biden was at Camp David. The US president and first lady Jill Biden returned from the presidential retreat in Maryland to the White House on Tuesday morning.
An official familiar with the investigation told the newspaper that the amount of the substance was small.
This would not be the first time illegal drugs have made their way into the White House. Rapper Snoop Dogg said he’d smoked weed in a bathroom in 2013, and Willie Nelson confessed to smoking a joint on the White House roof during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
British actor Erkan Mustafa said he smoked marijuana and did a line of cocaine on a visit to the White house during first lady Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” anti-drugs campaign. Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick said in 2011 she’d tried and failed to spike President Richard Nixon’s tea with LSD in 1970.
“I think Tricky Dick needs a little acid,” she later recalled thinking.
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Re: Cocaine found in White House; Secret Service investigates [Re: veggie] 2
#28384765 - 07/04/23 11:54 AM (10 months, 9 days ago) |
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I bet ya the basement is packed with 55 gallon drums of the stuff!!
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Re: Cocaine found in White House; Secret Service investigates [Re: jack_straw2208] 1
#28384811 - 07/04/23 12:40 PM (10 months, 9 days ago) |
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When I worked at a hotel, the rep for college republicans came to to host a seminar with a room full of good ol boys. Probably 100 ppl. They went so hard in the paint. Full sound system, every beer they could find, coolers of it wall to wall, and when the rep walked into the building he had a black brief case that had to have been filled with coke. My boss and I both started drooling and had to take a shit the second he walked through the doors. The whole lobby reeked like deisel.
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Re: Cocaine found in White House; Secret Service investigates [Re: vandago] 1
#28384849 - 07/04/23 01:18 PM (10 months, 9 days ago) |
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Those cocaine field test will come up positive if you use them on dirt...
I would wait for the lab results before jumping to any conclusions.
Though I doubt this would be the first time a presidential staffer has brought illegal drugs into the White House.
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Re: Cocaine found in White House; Secret Service investigates [Re: Holybullshit] 2
#28385480 - 07/04/23 10:47 PM (10 months, 9 days ago) |
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There are reports now that the cocaine was found, not in the White House library, but in a common area in the West Wing, an area accessible by Biden, hundreds of staffers, visitors, and journalists.
There is speculation that it may have belonged to the President's son, Hunter Biden, who is a known cocaine addict, and who coincidentally was staying at the White House on Friday, two days before the coke's discovery. More likely the coke belonged to WH staff or a visitor.
It's unlikely the source of the cocaine will ever be determined for sure, unless there was a surveillance camera in that area. 
If a later lab test determines the powder is NOT cocaine, I don't think it will matter much, people won't believe it, and it will seem like some kind of coverup.
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Re: Cocaine found in White House; Secret Service investigates [Re: veggie]
#28387198 - 07/06/23 02:18 PM (10 months, 7 days ago) |
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I am not personally into chemicals, have even told my fair share of jokes about crack pipes, but something leaving traces on every dollar bill is obviously common enough not to be stigmatized.
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Re: Cocaine found in White House; Secret Service investigates [Re: durian_2008]
#28387462 - 07/06/23 06:10 PM (10 months, 7 days ago) |
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Cocaine in the White House: a brief history July 6, 2023 - The Guardian
The drug was found in the building this weekend – and it’s probably not the first time it’s been inside
Cocaine in the White House? Chances are it’s not the first time – and the drug could well have been used by at least one past president, according to a leading presidential historian.
Lab tests confirmed that a white substance found inside the building on Sunday was indeed cocaine, the Secret Service told reporters. The discovery, on the floor near an entrance to the West Wing that’s commonly used by tour groups, led to a security alert and a brief evacuation of the executive mansion. Authorities are working to figure out who brought the drug into the building. (At the time, Joe Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland.)
Still, there’s good reason to think that coke has entered the US presidential office on past occasions – and that its most famous user may have been Franklin D Roosevelt.
Professor Steve Gillon, a US historian at the University of Oklahoma, says he was “shocked” to make the discovery while researching his 2011 book, Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War.
In addition to hypertension and heart disease in his later years, the president had chronic sinus conditions. Cocaine is a powerful vasoconstrictor, which means it tightens blood vessels, unlike many other topical anesthetics, which loosen blood vessels and can make bleeding worse. And in the 1930s and 1940s, when Roosevelt held office, the go-to treatment for nasal swelling was a watered-down cocaine solution, applied by a cotton swab, to quickly shrink and numb a patient’s nasal tissue, before inserting a needle to drain out sinus fluid.
Roosevelt’s official physician was a respected ear, nose and throat doctor named Ross McIntire, who would use cotton swabs to clear the president’s sinuses, a process witnessed by the attorney general Francis Biddle, who described in his notes McIntire “swabbing out FDR’s nose”. Gillon consulted medical journals and spoke to top ENT doctors familiar with the profession’s history who agreed: “Cocaine was the drug of choice” for the procedure back then, making it likely that Roosevelt had received it. “It was nothing unusual, it was common practice, and it wasn’t illegal,” Gillon says. (Even today, cocaine is a controlled substance that doctors can legally use in situations like sinus surgery.)
We may never know for sure if Roosevelt was given cocaine, because his medical records went missing shortly after his death in 1945 – probably destroyed to cover up evidence that doctors knew how sick he was when running for a fourth term, Gillon says. But the president’s official schedule shows that he regularly met with McIntire for sinus treatments – including a session lasting over an hour on 7 December 1941, after learning of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
“It was surprising to me that on this momentous day in American history, Roosevelt takes time in the middle of the day to have this treatment,” Gillon says. But if Roosevelt was indeed receiving cocaine at the time, he says, we don’t know “whether it had any impact on his personality or the decisions he made that day”.
Even if he was receiving it, there’s a good chance Roosevelt wouldn’t have known about it. According to the prevailing medical literature of the day, doctors were advised not to tell patients that they were receiving cocaine (“The habit-forming properties of this drug are well known and must be ever guarded against,” read one textbook). “Unless Roosevelt had asked, he would not have been told,” Gillon says.
Since FDR’s days, there have been a few other tales of drugs in the White House.
John F Kennedy was rumored to have smoked pot in a bedroom with his mistress Mary Pinchot Meyer. He was also said to have been given regular amphetamine shots by Max Jacobson, a controversial physician nicknamed “Dr Feelgood”, to treat chronic back pain. “I don’t care if it’s horse piss,” Kennedy reportedly told his brother Bobby. “It works.” (Like cocaine, amphetamine is also a controlled substance that can be legally prescribed for certain medical conditions.)
The most legendary White House substance story may be the singer Willie Nelson’s account of smoking weed on the building’s roof during Jimmy Carter’s administration, “late at night with a beer in one hand and a fat Austin Torpedo in the other”, he wrote in his 1988 autobiography. “I let the weed cover me with a pleasing cloud … I guess the roof of the White House is the safest place to smoke dope.”
The story was confirmed in 2020 by Carter himself, who explained that Nelson had been up there smoking with Carter’s son Chip. (In 2014, Snoop Dogg also claimed to have lit up a joint in Barack Obama’s White House, though his account was never verified.)
In 1998, the British actor Erkan Mustafa, who played Roland Browning in Grange Hill, claimed to tabloids he had smoked weed and snorted cocaine in Ronald Reagan’s White House in 1986, on a visit with the cast of the teen drama to promote Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug initiative. “When I met Nancy, I was out of it. I didn’t really care who she was or about the ‘just say no’ message,” he said.
But Mustafa later disavowed the story, explaining that he and other cast members had made up the story after becoming tired of being repeatedly asked the same questions. “I came up with a story that bit me on the arse. Looking back, you live and learn,” he told the Guardian in 2016. “How is a 16-year-old kid meant to be doing that? You couldn’t even go for a pee without security.”
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Re: Cocaine found in White House; Secret Service investigates [Re: veggie]
#28388156 - 07/07/23 08:55 AM (10 months, 7 days ago) |
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Divery
Enforcing Puritanical laws against you when they are the distro hub.
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Re: Cocaine found in White House; Secret Service investigates [Re: durian_2008]
#28394309 - 07/13/23 10:28 AM (10 months, 23 hours ago) |
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And that's that, case closed ...
Secret Service ends White House cocaine investigation with no suspects July 13, 2023 - Washington Post
The U.S. Secret Service has closed its investigation into who may have brought a plastic bag of cocaine into the White House this month after lab results were inconclusive about possible suspects, according to two people briefed on the probe.
The Secret Service sent the bag that had contained the powder to an FBI lab to look for traces of DNA and fingerprints, but neither form of testing yielded definitive results, the agency said. Nor was any surveillance video found that provided any investigative leads, officials added.
The likelihood of finding conclusive evidence on a small plastic bag was always considered small, according to several law enforcement officials familiar with the probe, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. Secret Service officials briefed members and staffers of the House Oversight Committee on the investigation in a secure session Thursday morning.
“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,” the Secret Service said in a public statement. “At this time, the Secret Service’s investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence.”
The cocaine was found on the ground floor of the West Wing near where visitors taking staff-led tours are instructed to leave their cellphones, The Washington Post previously reported. The large number of outsiders visiting White House on these tours created a major challenge for investigators, according to people familiar with the process.
The closure of the investigation comes 10 days after the cocaine was discovered, and the agency’s conclusions may not satisfy members of Congress.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, recently wrote Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle asking for more information on the agency’s security procedures for the White House.
“If the White House complex is not secure, Congress needs to know the details, as well as your plan to correct any security flaws,” Cotton wrote.
The small bag containing white powder was found July 2 in a cubby where guests are asked to leave phones before entering the West Wing. Described as a “dime bag” of cocaine that was only partially full of powder, the item was discovered as part of a routine security sweep conducted at the end of most evenings, according to people familiar with the matter.
The discovery prompted a brief evacuation of the building and elevated security, with a D.C. fire crew responding, as officials made sure the material was not a chemical or radiological substance. A preliminary test found the substance was cocaine, a finding that was later confirmed by a more definitive test.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said at the time that the Secret Service was immediately launching “an investigation into the cause and manner” by which the substance entered the White House.
President Biden was not in the White House when the cocaine was found, but he has been briefed on the discovery. A White House official said on July 5 that the president believed it was “incredibly important” for the Secret Service to determine how it got there.
Sources said Secret Service officials reviewed logs of staffers and other who entered the White House in the weekend before the July 4 holiday, and also reviewed videotapes of people entering, but were unable to identify any suspects and connect them to the baggie found in the cubby.
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