FBI: White House cocaine find and leak of Supreme Court ruling cases will be reopen
In addition, FBI will allocate more resources to the investigation of explosives planted prior to the assault on the Capitol in January 2021. No inquiries have so far failed to identify the perpetrators.
The FBI will initiate new inquiries related to several recent events: the bag of cocaine at the White House in 2023, during Joe Biden's term; the discovery of homemade explosive devices at the Democratic and Republican Party headquarters prior to the January 2021 assault on Capitol Hill; and the disclosure of a draft Supreme Court opinion that anticipated the overturning of abortion rights with the Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022.
Dan Bongino, a conservative-leaning podcaster and deputy director of the FBI, reported via “X” that he asked to receive weekly reports on the progress of investigations related to these cases. These incidents have been a recurring topic of discussion among sectors of the U.S. right wing and conspiracy circles.
What information is available on the FBI case related to the cocaine bag?
In 2023, a small bag of cocaine found near the entrance to the West Wing provoked strong reactions among Republicans. Donald Trump, among others, hinted that the drug could be linked to Joe Biden or his son Hunter, despite the fact that neither was in Washington at the time.
Bongino claimed, without evidence, that he was pointed out to him a possible connection between the cocaine found in the White House and someone in Biden's entourage. A lab confirmed that the substance was cocaine. In February, Donald Trump revisited the issue, suggesting that forensic evidence was intentionally removed, and called the finding “terrible.”
How did the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion rights leak?
The leak of the Supreme Court draft overturning the constitutional right to abortion, published by Politico on May, 2022, was harshly criticized by Trump. He called the leaking source “slime” and demanded that the journalists responsible be jailed until they reveal who the leaker was.
Eight months later, the Supreme Court released a 23-page report stating that, up to that point, the investigation had failed to identify the perpetrator due to a lack of conclusive evidence. In both the case of the leak and the cocaine, the investigations ended without being able to determine who was the perpetrator.
The leak of the Supreme Court overturning the abortion righ generated protest outside their headquarters in 2022. Photo AFP News
The FBI is moving forward with the investigation related to the homemade bombs
Bongino also reported that additional resources will be allocated to the FBI's investigation into the installation of homemade bombs at the offices of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee in Washington.
The explosives, which were later defused, were planted the night before the assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters in a failed attempt to prevent Congress from certifying Biden's 2020 election victory.
