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USSS Ordered Destruction Of White House Cocaine Day After Closing Case

Two years after the U.S. Secret Service discovered a bag of cocaine in the White House in July, 2023, documents showing orders for its destruction within 24 hours after the agency closed the case are raising new questions about the scrupulousness of the investigation.

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency document titled “Destruction” states that the bag of cocaine was sent to the Metropolitan Police Department for incineration. That document, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, doesn’t display a date for the destruction. But other internal Secret Service records show that the cocaine was tested by the Secret Service, the D.C. Fire Department hazmat technicians, and the FBI before being sent back to the Secret Service for storage on July 12. Two days later, it was transferred to the D.C. police department for destruction. The Secret Service shut down the cocaine investigation 11 days after discovering it.

The destruction of narcotics evidence must comply with environmental and safety regulations, and the D.C. police department has an Environmental Protection Agency-approved incinerator that federal agencies often use to destroy narcotics that are not involved in active legal cases.

D.C. police officials referred all questions about the cocaine’s apparent destruction to the FBI. There’s no entry or date for the cocaine’s actual destruction.

Early last week, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced that he was re-opening the investigation into the cocaine found in the White House, as well as the leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the discovery of a pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Bongino reiterated his commitment to getting to the bottom of those cases in a Wednesday night interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

“Well, I get a kick out of it on social media,” Bongino said. “People say, ‘This case isn’t a big deal. I don’t care.’ Well, I care. … You don’t care that a [potentially] hazardous substance made its way into the White House? We didn’t know what it was, and we don’t seem to have answers? Well, we’re going to get them. I’ve got a great team on it.”

While the cocaine bag found in the White House appears to have been destroyed, internal Secret Service documents show that the agency retained and stored a second piece of evidence, an envelope of three tubes of DNA that the FBI attained from the plastic bag of cocaine. It’s unclear how much DNA those tubes contain, though the Secret Service has stood by its statements that the FBI found insufficient DNA to pursue any investigative leads.

When the Secret Service closed its investigation into who left the cocaine in the White House on July 13,  the agency issued a statement explaining its decision. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi asserted that camera surveillance footage didn’t provide any “investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited” the cocaine in the White House, adding that FBI laboratory results “did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient evidence was present for investigative comparisons.”

But neither the FBI nor the Secret Service has publicly released the FBI laboratory results, and DNA experts say the only fool-proof way to demonstrate whether sufficient DNA existed on the baggie now to run against hits in national and state criminal DNA databases is to test it again.

“The only way to really tell, is to test it again and see what happens,” Gary Clayton Harmor, chief forensic DNA analyst at the Serological Research Institute in Richmond, California, told RCP. “Some labs will test anything, and others are more reluctant if they think it’s not a good enough sample to [test against national DNA databases]. The FBI, knowing them, they’re probably very conservative, and it may be that they said, ‘Nope, there’s not enough here to do anything meaningful with.’ It really depends on who’s doing the testing and how they did it.”

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Jill Biden’s ‘Work Husband’ and Co-Conspirator Revealed

Anthony Bernal, dubbed as Jill Biden’s “work husband,” played a crucial yet covert role in shielding the public from Joe Biden’s cognitive issues. Insiders have likened Bernal to the Wizard of Oz, a figure of “enormous power” operating behind the scenes. According to reports, Bernal has been by Jill’s side since the 2008 Obama-Biden campaign, known for his relentless loyalty and intimidating presence.

In a video released by Project Veritas, former Democratic National Committee chair David Hogg described Bernal as having “enormous power,” while others compared him to a hidden puppet master. Former Biden staffer Deterrian Jones remarked, “That was like an open secret. I would avoid him, he was scary.” The mysterious figure of Bernal was said to be so influential that many within the White House feared him.

According to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book, *Original Sin*, Bernal was pivotal in the secretive “Politburo” that managed the Biden presidency. He was close to the Biden family during crucial times, including the peculiar “basement campaign” in 2020. When things began to unravel last summer, Bernal was one of the few non-family members to remain by their side.

Jill Biden and Bernal worked hand in glove, identifying “heretics” and monitoring who was loyal or opposed to them, the book details. Bernal’s unwavering dedication to the Bidens, combined with his ruthless demeanor toward perceived adversaries, made him an unpopular figure within the White House. “He would not be welcome at my funeral,” one aide candidly mentioned in Tapper and Thompson’s book.

Despite Jill’s insistence on being addressed as “Dr. Biden” by others, she allowed Bernal the privilege of first-name familiarity. His open identity as a gay man afforded him a unique level of intimacy with the former First Lady. Bernal offered candid opinions on Jill’s appearance as they crafted her public image, frequently highlighted by outlets like *Vogue*.

Even after Joe Biden’s presidency faced criticism during a key debate, Jill maintained her glamorous persona with Bernal’s help. Following the debate, Jill told *Vogue*, “We will continue to fight,” emphasizing that they wouldn’t let those 90 minutes define the presidency’s four years. This defiant stance came despite growing scrutiny over the administration’s performance.

Now, with the Bidens no longer in the White House, Jill faces increasing pressure to disclose what she knew about her husband’s health. The revelation of Joe Biden’s advanced prostate cancer diagnosis has only intensified calls for transparency. “Frankly, the former first lady should certainly speak up about what she saw in regards to her husband and when she saw it, and what she knew,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a May 29 briefing.

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Fauci Must Be Shaken to the Core After Latest Discovery in COVID Investigation: They Found It

FBI Director Kash Patel may have the best piece of evidence yet to prove former COVID czar Dr. Anthony Fauci is responsible for the havoc wreaked during the pandemic.

On Friday, Patel made an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” where he stated the FBI now has Fauci’s personal devices from President Donald Trump’s first term when the pandemic began.

After stating Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy have been pursuing the origins of COVID, Patel told host Joe Rogan that several parties along with them always wanted to find information straight from the source.

“They had always been looking for… phones and devices he used while he was Fauci back in Trump one during COVID. And nobody had found it,” Patel said.

“Til two days ago,” he revealed.

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Kash Patel exposes Hunter’s laptop story and the 51 “intelligence” agents

With the Hunter Biden laptop story, 51 former intelligence agents testified that this… Thank you for bringing that up. Tell me how crazy that is.

If you want to talk about the ultimate weaponization and total disinformation combining forces, right? A week before the election, when Biden and Trump were competing—maybe one or two weeks before, right? The guy who used to be in the intelligence community says, “Oh, we have to bring the Hunter Biden laptop into play.” Knowing it was fake.

And they come out and basically say that the FBI, even though they knew Hunter Biden’s laptop was a legitimate piece of investigatory material and were examining it—and at that time knew they were going to pursue criminal leads from it—remained silent. They just set it aside. The intelligence community steps in and says that this information needs to get out.

Because the guy who would end up becoming Biden’s Secretary of State was advising him and saying, “Hey, we need to squash this Hunter Biden laptop issue. Let’s run the Russiagate play. Let’s do the Crossfire Hurricane operation.” So they go to the CIA and then-director Gina Haspel who—by the way—in government, there are no coincidences. Gina Haspel was chief of station in London when Russiagate was launched there. We can come back to that. Now she’s CIA Director, and we’re on the eve of an election, and there’s this thing called a pre-publication process.

So when I had to publish my book as a public servant, or whatever you want to call it, it had to go through review and everybody had to read it and trim it down, whatever. It takes forever—even if it’s a two-page document. The 51 intel letter was written by these same people, some of whom participated in Russiagate. And the person who has to authorize that is the CIA Director before it goes public. Do you know how long she took to authorize the release of that letter, knowing the information in the letter was false, knowing a laptop with Hunter Biden’s data on it was real, accurate, and being investigated by the FBI for criminal purposes? Eight hours. Eight hours.

They released that barrage of disinformation in eight hours. And what did we do? We’ve spent the last four years proving it—and we have more information coming on that too. Proving how those former Secretaries of Defense, CIA, NSA, deputy directors, the intelligence community—all came together to politicize intelligence once again because they got caught on Russiagate and didn’t care. And they wanted President Biden to win so badly that they were willing to lie to the American people. And they did it again. That is insane.

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Lawyer Who Bulletproofed Biden Bucks Now Fighting Trump Admin To Keep Gravy Train Rolling

A former Biden administration official who made it more difficult for agencies to terminate certain grants is now backing several legal efforts to ensure money awarded before President Donald Trump took office keeps flowing to left-wing organizations.

Daniel Jacobson, who was previously general counsel of Biden’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is opposing the Trump administration in cases that seek to restore billions in Biden administration grants from the Department of Education (ED), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He also filed a lawsuit against OMB. 

Jacobson’s involvement “raises many questions,” Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. He noted that former government lawyers have “obligations regarding what legal matters they can work on after leaving government service, under both federal ethics law and under professional rules of conduct, particularly as those rules have been adopted by the DC Bar, where Mr. Jacobson is a member.”

“If a government lawyer were to learn client confidences or secrets during his representation of an agency and use such information in litigation against that very same agency, it could very well implicate these ethics obligations,” Chamberlain said. “Although it’s not clear that has happened here, on the face of it, the situation raises many questions.”

Jacobson did not respond to requests for comment.

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Biden’s Doctor Gets Subpoena After Resisting Investigation Into His Personal Connection To Biden Family  

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has been trying to have a conversation for almost a year with Dr. Kevin O’Connor, former President Joe Biden’s physician. So far, he has refused to cooperate. In a letter sent on Thursday, the committee demanded, with the power of a subpoena, that he sit for a deposition on June 27.

Despite numerous concerning public moments when Biden seemed too old and infirm to handle the grueling work of the presidency, O’Connor gave Biden a clean bill of health. In February 2024, O’Connor assessed Biden as “a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” noted the letter from committee Chair James Comer.

This assessment is nearly impossible to believe because that same month, Special Counsel Robert Hur unsealed his report to the Department of Justice that found problems with Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur doubted he could secure a conviction and declined to charge Biden because, according to Hur, “Biden would likely present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Hur went on to say, “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

Incredibly, Biden remained president until the end of his term, making few appearances and reportedly signing almost everything with a staff-operated autopen, which is also currently under investigation.

Within months of Biden leaving the White House, his family announced he has advanced prostate cancer. How did O’Connor miss that?

The Oversight Committee is investigating more than the state of Biden’s health. It wants to know if O’Connor was personally motivated to produce favorable reports for his own gain.  

“The committee expressed its interest in whether your financial relationship with the Biden family affected your assessment of former President Biden’s physical and mental fitness to fulfill his duties as President,” Comer’s letter said. “Given your connections with the Biden family, the committee sought to understand if you contributed to an effort to hide former President Biden’s fitness to serve from the American people.”

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To Outrun the Complacent Class

“The emails showed the world’s leading climatologists busily working to organize a research cartel. Peer review was a legitimate source of authority when the process supported their positions. It was compromised, if not malicious, when it offered critics of the orthodoxy a platform. The wish to crush dissenting views, in their minds, had become indistinguishable from the pursuit of truth.”  

– Martin Gurri

Over the last two decades, exafloods of Internet content have educated and entertained beyond imagination. Exponentially-growing communications bandwidth and data transparency empowered regular people, elevated previously unknown geniuses, and helped expose deep dysfunction among many existing “experts.” A tsunami of social media also generated psychedelic confusion, not least among the experts themselves, leading to, in Martin Gurri’s words, a “crisis of authority.”

Now, artificial intelligence is about to amplify this infowarp a million-fold, for good and ill, producing both unprecedented knowledge and wealth and new epistemic challenges. 

If you thought the battles over social media “misinformation” were intense, just wait for the A.I. era. 

Lots of failed experts are engaged in a tactical retreat, regrouping for the coming battles. They passively admit “mistakes were made” but dodge specific accountability and refuse to acknowledge those who got the big questions right. 

At the same time, they are busy establishing new gatekeepers, taboos, and approved voices. The very people who got so many giant questions so very wrong over the last two decades are attempting to build a new information fortress for the next 20 years.

Journalist Douglas Murray, who once backed free speech but also celebrated America’s forever-war disasters, is threatening misbehavers with excommunication. After a dismal recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, the prolific podcast guest warned against listening to the wrong podcasts. 

What the standards are in the new media — especially on podcasts — is still being worked out.

But there must be some.

Otherwise the new media will lead people into errors and evils far greater than the old media could ever dream of.

What a turn of events. In recent years, on varied topics from Covid to Ukraine, the highly imperfect and diverse new media demolished the lockstep old media. Years from now, we might conclude the new media helped save Western civilization. Murray himself owes much of his impressive influence to new media. But now, suddenly, if Joe Rogan and alternative outlets don’t bow to Murray and his friends, they might be more “evil” than the people who lied about Joe Biden’s health, the origin of the virus, Iraqi WMD, Russia collusion, climate apocalypse, and so much more.

But doesn’t Murray have a point? Don’t standards matter? 

Of course, standards matter. Credibility matters. Expertise, editorial judgment, and curation are all important – perhaps more so in an era of information overload. No single person can navigate the infowarp alone. We need trusted sources and guides. 

When Murray balks at defining any standards, however, his tsk-tsk-ing is exposed as an arbitrary threat. If you don’t toe the party line, he and his friends will smear you out of polite society. 

The question is not whether we value standards and expertise. Obviously we do. The question is: at what layers of the stack are these judgments made? 

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Democratic Senator Used Influence to Remove Husband from TSA Watchlist

As is often noted, Democrats believe there are two sets of rules: one fot Democrats and one for everyone else. And now you can include the TSA to the list. Newly disclosed Department of Homeland Security records have exposed a sweeping abuse of the TSA’s domestic surveillance and watchlisting programs under the Biden administration—granting high-level political favors to allies while targeting critics for heightened scrutiny. At the center of the scandal is Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, whose husband, William “Billy” Shaheen, received a blanket exemption from TSA oversight—even after traveling multiple times alongside a known or suspected terrorist.

The documents, made public today, reveal that in 2023 alone, Billy Shaheen was flagged three separate times by TSA’s “Silent Partner” and “Quiet Skies” programs—federal initiatives meant to detect potential threats through behavioral and association-based monitoring. Rather than allow the system to operate impartially, Senator Shaheen intervened directly with then-TSA Administrator David Pekoske to remove her husband from further screening. Within days, officials approved his placement on the Secure Flight Exclusion List, shielding him from TSA scrutiny going forward.

Meanwhile, critics of the Biden administration—including former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard—were added to the very same surveillance programs with no notice, explanation, or recourse.

“This is not national security,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. “This is political protectionism. The TSA’s exclusion list became a tool to reward the connected and punish the inconvenient.”

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Chicago Police Recruit Allegedly Found with Cocaine in Pocket

A Chicago Police Department recruit found himself in hot water during a training exercise after allegedly possessing crack cocaine. This incident unfolded during a narcotics arrest training scenario, as reported by CWB Chicago. The recruit’s surprising explanation for the discovery of the illicit substance has raised eyebrows among officials.

The scenario was intended to be a routine exercise, with recruits practicing search techniques. According to the report, a recruit discovered real crack cocaine while searching a fellow recruit’s pocket. The suspect offered a curious defense, claiming the pants were not his own but borrowed from his brother, who is also in law enforcement.

The training exercise involved a trainer providing recruits with a baggie marked with blue stars, simulating heroin. However, the recruit found a different baggie, clear and knotted, containing four smaller bags adorned with green dollar signs. Each of these smaller bags reportedly contained suspected crack cocaine.

In response to the discovery, the trainer questioned the recruit about the contents of the knotted baggie. The recruit initially dismissed it as “trash” before offering his explanation about the ownership of the pants. This bizarre claim has left officials perplexed as they continue their investigation.

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Sen. Schmitt Raises Alarm Over Judge’s Repeated Assignment in Trump Cases

Concerns about the impartiality of the federal judicial system surfaced this week after Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt (R) publicly challenged the repeated assignment of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to several significant cases involving President Donald Trump. 

Posting on X, Schmitt described the pattern as a “statistical impossibility” and accused the case assignment process of being rigged.

Schmitt’s message quickly drew attention within conservative political circles.

“Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases,” he wrote on Tuesday. 

“A statistical impossibility. That isn’t ‘random.’ It’s rigged.”

Boasberg, who currently serves as chief judge for the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, has presided over multiple high-profile legal battles tied to Trump and his administration. 

These cases include a challenge concerning the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act—a statute employed to deport criminal illegal immigrants deemed threats to national security.

In addition to immigration cases, Boasberg oversaw litigation relating to the preservation of communications on the encrypted messaging app Signal. 

In March, he ordered Trump officials to save messages sent between March 11 and 15 connected to a sensitive military operation in Yemen. 

This directive came amid concerns over potential violations of federal record-keeping laws, since Signal’s auto-delete feature risked erasing crucial government communications.

The frequency with which Boasberg has been assigned these cases has sparked growing skepticism among Republican lawmakers.

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