WASHINGTON − The FBI is looking into an incident of cocaine found in former President Joe Biden‘s White House in 2023, as well as the 2022 leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
Dan Bongino, the bureau’s deputy director and former conservative talk show host, announced the probes in an X post on May 26. The decision to “re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention” to these cases was made together with FBI Director Kash Patel.
“Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest,” Bongino wrote.
The nation’s premier federal law enforcement bureau will also be focusing on the case of an unknown suspect planting pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic national committees’ Washington headquarters in January of 2021 before the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol tied to the certification of Biden’s White House victory in the 2020 election.
Bongino said he has requested weekly briefings on all three cases and that “we are making progress.”
Citing “a lack of physical evidence,” the Secret Service in July of 2023 closed and concluded an investigation into the cocaine mystery without identifying a suspect – shortly after the illegal drug was found in the White House. Biden was away from the White House at the time of the discovery.
Republicans at the time complained about the unresolved ending. Rep. James Comer, R-Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote in a letter to the Secret Service, “The presence of illegal drugs in the White House is unacceptable and a shameful moment in the White House’s history.”
Questions as to who leaked to the media outlet Politico the controversial draft Supreme Court decision to overturn decades of national abortion precedent, before the justices were prepared to announce, have also gone unanswered.
Retired Justice Stephen Breyer said in 2024 he has “theories,” about the 2022 media leak, though he declined to name names. Breyer did say he would “be amazed if it was a judge.”
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