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Documents Suggest that Biden Secret Service Was
Set to Destroy WH Cocaine Evidence
For nearly two weeks this summer the White House engaged in federal law
enforcement in an investigation of a bag of cocaine discovered in the West
Wing.
We received 112 pages of
Secret Service records from our July 13 FOIA request to the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) that include photos and communications regarding
the discovery.
The DHS withheld 34 pages in their entirety under the “foreseeable
harm” standard, which states “the agency reasonably foresees
that disclosure would harm an interest protected by an exemption …”
and/or the Privacy Act.
Our FOIA request sought records about:
A white powdery substance found inside the West Wing of the White House
on July 2, 2023, determined through testing to be the illegal drug
cocaine.
The cocaine was found in a West Wing phone locker while the Biden family
was away for the Fourth of July weekend at Camp David.
The investigative
photos include the bag of cocaine found near the White House’s
West Executive entrance.
A Secret Service “crime scene examination section evidence report” indicates
that the photos were taken on July 2.
The records include a July 2 email sent by a
Secret Service public information officer whose name is redacted regarding
a “suspicious substance at [the] White House:”
A 1" by 1" bag of white powdery substance was found near where pass
holders put their phones when going into the [redacted] here. UD [Uniformed
Division] Crime Scene tested it for drugs but came back inconclusive. TSD
couldn't determine what it was. Closures were made for caution.
DCFEMS [DC Fire & Emergency Medical
Services] HAZMAT is on scene as of this email.
An incident report
written on July 2 regarding a “suspicious package/incident” details the
activities undertaken by the Secret Service Crime Scene Search Unit, the DC
Hazmat team and the FBI’s WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] Directorate
in handling the then-undetermined substance.
An additional July 2 incident report
indicates the investigation lasted 12 days and that “cocaine and sodium
bicarbonate were identified within the Item 1-1 powder” and that DNA
“test results did not identify an individual responsible for the
placement of the item within the West Wing of the White House Complex.”
The report states that on July 14 the cocaine was “placed on the
property/evidence book for ‘destruction.’”
A July 3 email from a
person in the Technical Security Division whose name is redacted states:
Starting time Approx 1745 [5:45 p.m.] UD [Uniform Division] advised of a
small ziploc bag approximately less than 1" in by 1" in the cell phone
lockers by [redacted] was confident it was drug related thus the phone call
to UD CRIME SCENE.
A July 10 email indicates
that no identifiable prints were found on the bag.
On July 13, the Deputy Chief of the U.S. Secret Service Foreign Missions
Branch sent a report to the
Uniform Division, indicating that the bag of “unknown white powdery
substance” was identified as cocaine by the FBI laboratory.
These photos and documents detail the disruption and expense of the Biden
White House cocaine scandal. Few Americans buy that the Biden
administration can’t figure out who brought this cocaine into the West
Wing. Indeed, the lack of documentation about the “investigation” of
who was responsible is striking.
Biden FBI Officials Rushed to Respond to Leaked Memo on its Targeting of
Catholics
Along with CatholicVote Civic Action, we just received 131 heavily redacted
pages of records from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)
showing top officials rushing to craft a public response to the leaked FBI intelligence
memo that revealed its targeting of Catholics who adhere to traditional
beliefs on church issues.
The FBI launched a vicious spy effort against Catholics and sought to spy
on parishioners as they sat in church pews. These records show top FBI
officials were panicked in response about their domestic spying abuse
leaking out.
The records were uncovered thanks to an April 2023 FOIA lawsuit we filed along
with CatholicVote Civic Action
against the FBI and the Department of Justice after their failure to
respond to March 2023 requests for records about an FBI intelligence
memo targeting “radical traditionalist” Catholics (CatholicVote Civic Action
and Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Investigations and Department
of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01166)).
In February 2023, an FBI intelligence document was leaked that revealed
FBI targeting of Catholics who adhere to traditional beliefs on abortion
and other cultural issues. The Catholic News Agency reported: “The leaked
document has been condemned by several federal and state officials, as well
as clergy, including Bishop Barry Knestout of
the Diocese of Richmond, who recently called the memo a ‘threat to
religious liberty.’”
The newly obtained records include a February 8, 2023, email with the subject
line “Media Request: FBI Richmond Document cites SPLC” from the FBI’s
National Press Office alerting FBI officials regarding media inquiries:
We have inquiries from the Washington
Examiner and The Daily Signal (Heritage Foundation) about an article
written by [redacted]. It references a January intelligence product from
the Richmond Field office. After speaking with SC Goodwater, I am alerting
all of you so we can get a copy of the actual document and hear any
recommendations on how to respond. I am attaching a cut and paste of the
[redacted] article.
Miriam Coakley of the Office of General Counsel then forwards the email on
to other FBI officials, noting, “Adding InTo [Insider Threat Office],
SecD [Security Division] and OPR [Office of Professional Responsibility].
The date of the leaked domain perspective appears to be 23 Jan. 2023.”
Further along the chain, an official in the Office of Public Affairs
forwards the chain to more people, saying, “Adding Pamela Bryon from the
DI. [Deputy Asst. Director of Intelligence Pamela Byron.] Any info
on how this product came about would be appreciated.”
In a heavily redacted reply, Byron responds:
As mentioned on FBINET, the type of
product leaked is a Domain Perspective (DP) – the purpose of DPs is to
offer information and/or highlight how a shift or new development in an AOR
(domain) related to an environmental variable could impact the threat.
Environmental variables include demographic shifts, technology development,
economic conditions, special events, social/cultural conditions, etc. In
particular the analysis in DPs (as in FBI products in general) is focused
on the activity of identified or potential threat actors, not on the
environmental variables themselves, and how those threat actors react to
shifts in the environment, and the subsequent impact on the threat posed by
those actors.
In that context, there are a couple of things to note with this situation:
[redacted].
We stand by to assist on any other questions.
The records include a February 9 email with the subject
line “Coordination of Draft statement regarding leaked RH intel
document” from Office of Public Affairs official Douglas Goodwater to top
FBI officials, including FBI Chief of Staff Johathan Lenzner, Asst. Dir.
for Intelligence Tonya Ugoretz, Asst. Dir. for Counterterrorism Robert
Wells and others:
Draft/pre decision, Coordination for
media statement – DI/CTD/OGC [Directorate of
Intelligence/Counterterrorism Division/Office of General
Counsel]
Potential statement for review/edits-: [Redacted].
Asst. Director for Public Affairs Catherine Milhoan then responds:
All, we have received two new inquiries
in addition to the three last night and are making the decision to respond
in the next hour. We want to get our statement out before this picks up any
steam.
DI/CTD/OCG,
Please review the draft and let us know if you have any edits or
concerns.
Later in the email chain, Stanley Meador, Special Agent-in-Charge of the
Richmond Field Office, replies, “Looks good. One small suggestion in
yellow. I would send it out. It is migrating onto Fox: https://www.foxnews.com/media/purported-fbi-document-suggests-agency-targeting-catholics-attend-latin-mass.”
On February 10, 2023, FBI Chief of Staff Jonathan Lenzner emails FBI colleagues
with the subject “intel piece that has been withdrawn,” saying, “I
don’t know if we are there yet, [redacted].”
Lenzner then follows up on February 13, writing, “Looks like at least one
religious organization is speaking out publicly: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/catholic-league-condemns-fbi-internal-memo-targeting-catholics.”
Ryan T. Young, the Executive Assistant Director of the Intelligence Branch
replies to Lenzner, “Not a good look … Real frustrating when it is
self-inflicted. I’ll be back in town Wednesday. We can look into next
best steps.”
“After seven months of delay and more to come, Joe Biden’s FBI remains
committed to one thing: covering up their un-American spying on Catholic
citizens,” said former Congressman Huelskamp, Ph.D., Senior Advisor to
CatholicVote. “By fully withholding more than 200 pages of public
documents, the Biden administration is more interested in hiding the truth
than ending this unconstitutional witch hunt of Catholics and other
faithful Americans.”
(CatholicVote.org is a
community of patriotic Americans who believe that the timeless truths of
the Catholic faith are good for America. It makes its mission “to inspire
every Catholic in America to live out the truths of our faith in public
life.”)
Illegal Immigration Costs More Than Gross Domestic Product of 15
States
The Biden border invasion is dangerous, deadly…and expensive. Our
Corruption Chronicles blog reports the
staggering numbers.
Mass illegal immigration resulting from the Biden administration’s
open border policies is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of
dollars to provide an unprecedented number of migrants with medical
treatment, housing, education, and other welfare services, not to mention
law enforcement. A new congressional report that includes
federal and state figures reveals the shocking price of supporting an
estimated 16.8 to 29 million illegal aliens currently living in the United
States. The “net cost of illegal immigration is greater than the annual
gross domestic product (GDP) of 15 different states,” according to the
lengthy report, published this week by the House Committee on Homeland
Security. “Illegal immigration costs every American taxpayer a net
average of $956—or $1,156 before the taxes paid by illegal aliens are
factored in.”
Healthcare is among the biggest expenses
with Medicaid costs for “emergency services for undocumented aliens”
exceeding $12.4 billion in the last two years, according to figures
provided to committee members by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services. In fiscal year 2022, which ended in September, improper Medicaid
payouts across the U.S. totaled more than $80 billion with around $8
billion going to illegal aliens. In New York City hospitals recorded about
30,000 visits by illegal immigrants in the past year along with
approximately 300 births. A Yuma County, Arizona lawmaker recently
testified before Congress that the maternity ward and emergency room at
Yuma Regional Medical Center has incurred over $26 million in uncompensated
costs for illegal immigrants.
Housing migrants is another huge expense
that is forecasted to reach as much as $451 billion, according to figures
cited in the congressional report. New York City alone is on track to spend
over $12 billion by 2023 to provide shelter for tens of thousands of
illegal aliens that have arrived since spring 2022. Chicago is spending
north of $20 million a month to “house and support” illegal aliens and
Washington D.C. is doling out more than $52 million to house the large
groups of migrants that have settled into the capital area recently.
“Because [DHS Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas refuses to follow the law
requiring him to detain and remove illegal aliens, towns and cities across
the country have been forced to pick up the costs of housing and providing
shelter for the hundreds of thousands that have been released into their
communities,” the report states. “This reality has been documented
everywhere from small towns thousands of miles from the border, all the way
to America’s largest cities.”
Education and law enforcement are two other
major expenses for the U.S. government, states, and local municipalities
nationwide. Nearly four million illegal aliens attend public schools around
the country and most receive special services for Limited English
Proficiency (LEP) costing American taxpayers nearly $59 billion. New York
City alone is spending around $440 million to educate about 11,500 illegal
aliens who will likely remain in the system next year. Police expenditures
provided by the National Institute of Corrections reveal that illegal
immigrants cost states nearly $9 billion in 2022 with judicial expenses
around $3.72 billion and prison costs about $6.2 billion. Department of
Justice (DOJ) statistics cited in the report disclose that 25,000 criminal
aliens are in federal prisons at an annual price tag of approximately
$40,000 per incarcerated individual, which means taxpayers are doling out
nearly $1 billion to lock up criminal illegal aliens.
Other migrant costs include billions of
dollars for transportation and welfare benefits such as food stamps. In
fiscal year 2022 the government spent around $5.8 billion to provide
millions of illegal immigrants with food stamps, according to figures
provided in the new congressional report. Another welfare program known as
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) that gives low-income pregnant women and
their children up to the age of five nutritious food disperses over $1.3
billion in benefits each year to illegal immigrants. Transportation costs
listed in the document include more than $75 million in Texas to transfer
migrants from the state, around $3.5 million for dozens of buses that
departed Arizona to Washington D.C. and $12 million to the Florida
Department of Transportation for illegal alien relocation. Additionally,
the federal government spent at least $340 million transporting illegal
immigrants into the interior last year and $660 million to relocate alien
family units and minors, which are classified as Unaccompanied Alien
Children (UAC).
Until next week,
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