Got Cocaine?

Cocaine was found in the West Wing of the White House on July 2^nd. An investigation was opened into how it got there, who was involved, and how long it had been there. That investigation was closed eleven days later with no answers to the above questions.

Much has already been written about the details of this case and we will try not to be repetitive here. Besides, the details aren’t the most interesting part. It’s all the juicy context surrounding this case that is so compelling it can’t be ignored. Here are the main parts of that context:

• A known cocaine user is living in the White House (Hunter Biden). While we are told to believe Hunter is “recovering” from his drug use, we can’t just dismiss his past behavior as irrelevant to the present circumstances. Additionally, the House Oversight Committee has now amassed a copious trail of other Hunter Biden transgressions (pay for play, money laundering, tax evasion) in a relatively short period of time. Given that, it’s clear Hunter was/is not particularly cautious when it comes to concealing his misdeeds. Mistakenly leaving a bag of cocaine where it shouldn’t be would not be completely out of character.
• In what seemed to be lightning speed, we were told definitively that a “thorough” investigation lasting all of 11 days turned up absolutely nothing and that the culprit would likely never be found. Contrast that to the FBI’s investigation of Hunter Biden’s laptop which has been ongoing for over 300 days and counting. For an administration whose investigative arms are characterized by moving at glacial speed, why was this particular investigation completed in nanoseconds by comparison?
• Apparently lost in the rush to close this investigation is how a white powdery substance, which could easily have been something lethal instead of cocaine (e.g. ricin), made it undetected into the White House. Are we really to believe this aspect of the investigation was so unimportant to the Secret Service that they decided to give up and forget about it after 11 days? This is not normal.
• Also not normal is the surprisingly fast and explicit admission by the investigators that they had no video coverage, no fingerprints, no DNA, or any useful forensic evidence at all. Are the technical capabilities of the Secret Service investigators really this feeble? And even if all these things were true, the last thing they should be doing is broadcast such a conspicuous and embarrassing gap in their security to the rest of the world. That’s one of the basic tenets of operational security.
• Finally, it was just reported that the investigators have now destroyed the bag of cocaine they found. So that’s it, they made it just like it never happened. We can’t help but be reminded of the movie “Men in Black” when Agent K used the flashy thing to erase events from people’s memory.

This couldn’t possibly be a more obvious and classic case of a coverup. There is no question in our minds the Secret Service knows who the cocaine is connected to. If the perpetrator were a random White House visitor or a low-level staff employee, there would be no reason to hide that information. In fact, from an operational security point of view, they would want to broadcast that they were able to swiftly and easily identify the person, discouraging any future copycat attempts.

However, if the perpetrator is someone in Joe Biden’s inner circle, where the political consequences could be disastrous, there is plenty of motivation to hide that fact. And because Hunter Biden is such a glaringly obvious culprit who likely crossed everyone’s mind when this story broke, there is also plenty of motivation to erase the story from the news cycle as fast as possible.

Terrible optics surrounded Hunter Biden prior to the bag of cocaine being found. Thus, the motivation to cover up and kill this story would be just as strong even if Hunter didn’t have anything to do with it. This is because the odious context that is tattooed to Hunter, all of which is his own making, implies guilt.

Sadly, we can now add the Secret Service to the long list of Executive branch departments who, much like the FBI, have lost all credibility and need to be thoroughly purged by the next administration. Worse, they’ve signaled a high degree of technical incompetence to the rest of the world, which could embolden villains far more dangerous than Hunter Biden.