Is Biden ‘roadblocking’ hunt for the West Wing cocaine culprit? Ex-border chief says White House cameras are everywhere and all guests are listed so whoever left drug COULD have been tracked down by now
- Ex-CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan told DailyMail.com Secret Service should already have solved the mystery of who brought cocaine into the White House
- Suggested that Biden administration might be ‘roadblocking’ the probe
- Morgan’s ‘best guess’ is the cocaine belonged to ‘someone who was not working permanently at the White House’ – but still could be a ‘senior-level position’
The investigation into who brought cocaine into the White House should already be a closed case, according to former Border Commissioner and longtime FBI agent Mark Morgan.
With four days and all-hands on deck, Morgan hyperbolized when speaking with DailyMail.com that the mystery could be solved in ’30 minutes.’
He suggested that the White House might be putting up roadblocks as the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) investigates the matter, claiming the investigation ‘isn’t complicated.’
‘An investigation like this is pretty straightforward. Everybody that enters the White House is manifested,’ he said, adding: ‘They know who comes in, they know when they came in, they’re checked, and there are video cameras everywhere.’
A uniformed Secret Service agent found cocaine Sunday at the White House. This led to a hazmat situation and brief evacuation of the premises. President Joe Biden was not on site at the time as he continued his long weekend with family in Camp David.
Former CBP Commissioner and longtime FBI agent Mark Morgan told DailyMail.com that Secret Service should already have solved the mystery of who brought cocaine into the White House
Morgan (pictured during a briefing at the White House in November 2019) suggested the Biden administration is ‘roadblocking’ Secret Service’s investigation
Initial dispatch from the scene of the discovery noted that white powder substance was found in the ‘library,’ but USSS later said this was incorrect – and the actual location of the dime-sized bag was a cubby in the West Wing used to store cell phones.
Morgan says he is very familiar with the cubbies where the cocaine was reportedly discovered. He described the storage areas as lockboxes and said that you would use a physical key to lock your items in the cubby when entering certain areas of the White House – like Oval Office or Situation Room.
He had to use the lockboxes for his cell phone when attending meetings at the White House when he was Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) under former President Donald Trump.
USSS has repeatedly said when reached by DailyMail.com that it cannot comment on an ongoing investigation.
Morgan, however, insists that the investigation should already be wrapped up because there is ‘forensic evidence, controlled access, cameras, witnesses, the manifest of who actually is coming to the White House, and who’s going through those areas, and a limited timeframe’
‘They’ve got so much information,’ he said. Again, when I say 30 minutes, I’m being facetious, you know. Really my intent was from that is, when it comes to serious investigations, this one’s a pretty straightforward investigation.’
He added that [in a top priority investigation], like those he conducted during his decades at the FBI, ‘you get people, you download the tapes, you’re reviewing the tapes, you’re interviewing people.’
‘My question is, how much of that has been done?’ Morgan posed, suggesting that USSS might be prevented by the White House from conducting the normal procedure needed to investigate a ‘top priority case.’
‘And a lot of that could be influenced by the White House,’ he explained. ‘This probably would go to the Deputy Chief of Staff’s purview to work with the Secret Service to coordinate. So my question is the Secret Service saying, ‘Hey, we need to interview XYZ.’ Are they allowed to interview those people?’
USSS said that cocaine was found in a West Wing work area – and follow-up reports revealed it was discovered in a lockbox used by White House visitors to store their cell phones during meetings
An initial dispatch from Washington DC Fire Department suggested the cocaine was found in the library of the executive mansion
‘Are they able to go in and pull surveillance tapes as they need? Are they able to talk to the people that they would normally need to talk to for this investigation without any roadblocks?’
‘I don’t know. Those are good questions that I don’t have the answer to.’
Morgan contested that the lockboxes, especially one specific bank of cubbies, aren’t in areas where there is heavy foot traffic – like described by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during her Wednesday briefing.
Trolls online immediately speculated that the cocaine belonged to President Biden’s recovering addict son Hunter, 52.
Morgan claims it could have been a high-level official or another person invited to visit the White House.
‘I think my best – the investigative assumption, still a lot we don’t know – but it was more than likely someone who was not working permanently at the White House,’ he told DailyMail.com ‘Because, again, [permanent staffers] wouldn’t use that box.’
‘That doesn’t mean it can’t be somebody high up in the administration, because even as commissioner or a secretary, if you come into that area, and you had your cell phone, you would have to put your cell phone in that box,’ he clarified.
Trolls online immediately said that the president’s son Hunter Biden, 52, is to blame for bringing cocaine into the White House. Hunter is a recovering addict and was an addmitted user of crack cocaine
Morgan added: ‘I’m making an investigative assumption that it probably wasn’t someone that works permanently, day-in-day-out, at the White House, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be somebody in a senior-level position in the White House that was coming there for a meeting.’
Anyone with a permanent position at the White House, Morgan claims, would just leave their cell phones or other electronic devices in their offices when attending classified meetings.
He also downplayed reports and suggestions that the cocaine could belong to just anyone walking through the area – like maintenance or cleaning staff or construction crew members.
‘Yeah, none of those [staff] would be using that cubby,’ he said. ‘I mean, I just don’t see why a construction worker would use something like that.’
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