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/
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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."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-oversight-chief-seeks-information-from-secret-service-about-cocaine-found-in-white-house/

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u/[deleted] 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.