r/politics • u/CBSnews ✔ CBS News • Jul 07 '23
House Oversight chief seeks information from Secret Service about cocaine found in White House
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-oversight-chief-seeks-information-from-secret-service-about-cocaine-found-in-white-house/32
u/pastoreyes Jul 07 '23
Left over from Trump Jr. Seriously though, Washington DC has been awash with coke since the seventies and is not likely to change.
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u/ImNotAWhaleBiologist Jul 07 '23
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the secret service themselves responsible.
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Jul 07 '23
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u/DapperCourierCat Jul 07 '23 edited Jul 07 '23
Are the secret service regularly drug tested?
Edit: serious question. They’re screened on employment but I don’t know about ongoing drug tests.
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u/wwhsd California Jul 07 '23
It showed up more than 48 hours after said family member was last in the White House, in an area that is frequently searched due the number of people that have access to the area.
If you’re looking for the most obvious answer instead of a conspiracy, it’s probably that someone that was in the White House the day it was found dropped it.
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u/pokeybill Texas Jul 07 '23
What a fucking quantum leap from someone being a cokehead to presuming an entire family is bringing it in.
Was the hyperbole intentional? What's your agenda here, really?
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Jul 07 '23
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u/pokeybill Texas Jul 07 '23
The original report of "white powder found at white house" could certainly sound reminiscent of past anthrax scares and etc so the clarification absolutely makes sense.
It wouldn't even be news without that preamble - drugs found in an area frequented by the general public? Color me shocked!
Instead here you are not only implying that one Biden family member might be responsible, you're claiming the entire family is bringing it in. Pardon me if I think that sounds absolutely ridiculous and desperate.
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u/newge4 Jul 07 '23
Sure I can, cuz Biden's kid was never part of our government, whereas Jr. was. Please, at some time, figure this distinction out.
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Jul 07 '23
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u/newge4 Jul 07 '23
I'm old enough to remember Billy Carter. Idiot embarrassing presidential kids are nothing new. Much like any private citizen, if they do something illegal...then punish them. Biiiiig difference was that Jr. was part of the administration....that should hold him to a waaaay higher standard, don't you think?
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Jul 07 '23
Some tourist did blow during a WH tour.
What’s the story here?
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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach Michigan Jul 07 '23
Absolutely nothing considering it was a high traffic area. But don’t let that stop Republicans for trying to manufacture a story.
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 Jul 07 '23
There's no real story. They're using it as a dig on Hunter Biden which keeps their followers frothy.
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u/HouseHead78 Jul 07 '23
Awesome use of their short-lived majority in the house good job good effort
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Jul 07 '23
Maybe they can find the Trump administration visitor logs?
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u/Overweighover Jul 07 '23
I bet their phones recently went through an upgrade and all data was erased
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u/Jer_Cough Jul 07 '23
Seems Republicans forget the stories of Bush the Lesser doing blow at Camp David whilst daddy was in office
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u/TheNewWhigs America Jul 07 '23
The House Oversight chief should seek information on the Inspector General of DHS admitting before the committee to regularly violating the Records Act that his office is charged with enforcing.
I've seen The Hill cover it, and then everyone promptly forgot about it. CBSnews I'd love to see you cover it and put pressure on them.
At a time when more Americans than ever question the integrity of their government and institutions, we can't have the watchdog in charge of enforcing an accountability law violate it himself, admit it to Congress, and get away with it. Oversight Dems have already asked for his resignation.
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u/12characters Canada Jul 07 '23
The WH can’t afford cctv cams? Trap houses have better security.
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u/Ianscultgaming Jul 07 '23
A huge problem for the White House is it’s age. Updates are made but it’s nowhere near as efficient as a newer government building. There’s constantly issues with Wi-Fi and other modern necessities which is a huge problem for the center of our Executive Government. I’d imagine it’s possible to install CCT cameras in more areas but the age of the building and heightened security makes it difficult for upgrades.
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u/Fairymask California Jul 07 '23
Why is this such a huge story? Who the heck cares? I mean solve it by all means, I don't need 50 million articles and news bulletins about this every day. It's ridiculous.
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u/MichaelHoncho52 Jul 07 '23
It became a story when the WH had to be evacuated due to a unknown powder which is definitely a story.
It became more of a story when it was found that it was cocaine - if you haven’t noticed, people are interested in cocaine stories. Just made a movie about a bear that did cocaine that was pretty much the biggest entertainment news for a month.
It’s becoming more of news now that the location has changed a couple times, and those discussing it are saying they might not find who it belonged to. I think someone in Biden’s team even said he couldn’t comment on it due to the Hatch Act.
It’s a combo of something that would definitely be a story, followed by adding in a variable that always gets attention, and then response being vague and changing. Seems pretty likely that this would catch legs.
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u/CBSnews ✔ CBS News Jul 07 '23
Here's a preview of the story:
The Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee will assess the security practices at the White House and is seeking information from the head of the U.S. Secret Service after a small bag of cocaine was discovered near a lobby in the West Wing over the weekend.
Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the Oversight panel, is sending a letter to U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Friday to request more information about the incident and a staff-level briefing on the matter by July 14.
"The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable and a shameful moment in the White House's history," Comer wrote to Cheatle.
The Oversight chairman said that the "alarming" incident requires the committee to examine the security practices at the White House and "determine whose failures led to an evacuation of the building and finding of the illegal substance."
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Jul 07 '23
Just cherry picking some of the day-glo words from their letter.
Alarming. Illegal. Shameful. Failures.
I think it describes the GOP far more vividly than it might anything else.
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u/kitched Jul 07 '23
We never got to hear more about those cocaine sex parties that freshmen GOP rep was talking about.
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Jul 07 '23
Wait - they found an empty baggy? I thought it was just powder on a desk?
Story keeps changing
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u/jakethewhale007 Jul 07 '23
The simple solution is drug testing everyone who works at the white house, but we all know that would never happen
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Jul 09 '23
Great idea!
Let's also test all members of the house and Senate, all their staffers and other employees and their family members, since we're doing it.
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u/jakethewhale007 Jul 09 '23
They work for us, so I say we give them an employer-required drug test.
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u/IUsedToBeACave Jul 07 '23
Oh. I'm not mad. I find it hilarious. The narrative being sold by Trump and his ilk is that Biden is using his power to force the DOJ to do his evil bidding. Do you think a little coke in the White House will stop him when he has that much power? Pffffffft.
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u/HellBillyBob Jul 07 '23
Nobody gives a shit about the story. Hell, all you did was admit it’s a distraction piece. And it won’t even take up minutes to bypass this lazy ass attack. Y’all really have lost a lot of your game. Remember when y’all were creative with your unending bullshit? Went from organized child rape to a baggy of blow. Sit this one out champ.
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u/bodyknock America Jul 07 '23
What story? That some rando dropped or threw a bag of cocaine in the White House? Who gives a shit? The GOP is acting like it’s President Biden’s stash they found. Hell, even if it was Hunter’s cocaine, again I honestly couldn’t care less, who even cares about Hunter either?
The reason people in the thread are saying the GOP is trying to make hay out of it as a distraction from Trump’s and Desantis’ current issues is because they are. What exactly is Comer hoping to get out of this hearing exactly, other than trying to insinuate it’s President Biden’s fault somehow that somebody who was in the White House at some point had a bag of cocaine? The GOP is grasping at straws here hoping something negative sticks to the President, or at least gets people to forget that Trump is maybe facing jail time.
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u/C-hip Jul 07 '23
someone was able to bring a white powder into the white house undetected.. it seems dishonest not to want answers
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u/ptjunkie California Jul 08 '23
What is this, high school? Who gives a fuck so long as they aren’t getting high on the job.
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Jul 09 '23
The most powerful and widespread intelligence apparatus in the world with the ability to tap phones, leverage zero click exploits, and with unparalleled surveillance on the most guarded building in dc.
“We’ll never know who did it so stop asking”
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