[Yahoo] The Secret Service on Thursday said its investigation into how cocaine ended up at the White House is now closed without identifying a suspect.
The agency statement came after congressional Republicans said they were told in a classified Secret Service briefing that the investigation into the cocaine found in the White House West Wing earlier this month was concluding without a determination of who was responsible.
"There was no surveillance video footage found that provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area," the agency said in a lengthy statement. "Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered. At this time, the Secret Service's investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence."
The Secret Service said the packaging was "subjected to advanced fingerprint and DNA analysis," by the FBI crime lab.
"The investigation included a methodical review of security systems and protocols," the agency statement said. "This review included a backwards examination that spanned several days prior to the discovery of the substance and developed an index of several hundred individuals who may have accessed the area where the substance was found. The focal point of these actions developed a pool of known persons for comparison of forensic evidence gleaned from the FBI's analysis of the substance's packaging.
"On July 12, the Secret Service received the FBI's laboratory results, which did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons," the statement said.
Following Thursday's closed-door briefing to members and staff of the House Oversight Committee, Republicans said they viewed the development as a "failure" of the agency and said the briefers said the investigation was concluding.
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Head of Secret Service, Director Kimberly A. Cheatle.
Prior to her appointment, Ms. Cheatle served as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo, where she was responsible for directing and implementing security protocols for the company's facilities in North America. Her role at PepsiCo involved developing risk management assessment and risk mitigation strategies.
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Did we ever find out which of the 38 possible people leaked the Supreme Court brief? or who dropped off the Jan 5th pipe bombs? or how many Deep State provocateurs were in the Capital on Jan 6th....
#10
"Well, as you asked, we thought it was anthrax powder so we doused with sterilizing solution. Unfortunately that destroyed any fingerprints, pity that!"
#11
When honor cannot hold against rank criminal intimidation and careerism, the prognosis is terminal, and protestations of integrity are mere noise. When in doubt, trust your instincts, because all government will do is give the wink-wink, nudge-nudge smirk.
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And to think it was Joe Biden who wanted extra criminal penalties for crack cocaine. Well, I guess that makes it alright if Hunter only goes for the powder.
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Only for Black People.
I believe the only thing missing from The White Line House at this point is Harvey Weinstein.
Posted this morning as a "Barking Dogs" comment by SKID.
[FOX] Republican lawmakers erupted Tuesday after learning about a 2015 email chain that predated President Biden’s infamous 2015 trip to Ukraine, when a Burisma Holdings executive revealed the "ultimate purpose" of Hunter Biden’s involvement with the Ukrainian energy company.
One month before then-Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine, where he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid if Ukrainian leaders did not fire their top prosecutor, Hunter Biden and Burisma executives were discussing executing a contract for counter-messaging against any federal investigations into Burisma’s founder and then-president, Mykola Zlochevsky.
"The sequence of events that led to the firing of Viktor Shokin, and the subsequent comments by then-Vice President Biden, raise serious concerns as to what machinations were really at play — and were purposefully concealed from the American people," Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who sits on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, told Fox News Digital. "No matter how you slice Hunter Biden’s involvement, it screams public corruption at the highest levels and must be fully investigated."
"The calm, judicious, steady reveal of incredibly condemning evidence that clearly incriminates the Biden crime family will eventually alarm even the most ardent supporters of this WH occupier," said Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., also a committee member. "Our President is compromised, he should resign and be forever condemned, and the Democrat Party should begin rebuilding itself."
[Gateway] FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee today.
The hearing, "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," examined the politicization of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency under the direction of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), a former sheriff,
...so he should know...
destroyed dirty Chris Wray during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Nehls brought video and photos of Ray Epps encouraging Trump supporters to enter the US Capitol on January 5th and January 6th and then leading the charge through the first ste of barriers to the US Capitol.
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The Ray Epps play will be the “ongoing investigation play.” Wray’s impeachment needs to go to the Senate anyway. The effort will fail in the Senate, but the process needs to be run for all the perps to allow us to winnow the Senate.
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Given it has been established that Gov. Agents were implanted in the Jan 6th protest to cause issues. That it has been factually shown that these Gov. Agents, steered and/or instigated otherwise peaceful protesters into the commission of certain unknowingly legal violations.
Shouldn't those agents be held and charged also?
OR
Is the DOJ applying selective enforcement for political control and revenge .
So wouldn't the clear evidence of ENTRAPMENT negate the charges and many of these trials?
Either way being at the scene of a legal political protest does not make a person the subversive or criminal. Otherwise, Law Enforcement would have to arrest a 1,000 YouTubers - using cellphones a day.
#4
He may be charged to take the heat off of him and the steam out of the Epps example. Fang Fang and Shifty will make hay with it. His case will drag out. Someone will pay his lawyer. He will not be incarcerated pre-trial for his safety. It will drag out past the 2024 campaign.
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If he was actually charged because of media pressure - that's another whole world of selective enforcement.
But if he is charged, I think it would be because the DOJ hopes to relieve the building pressure - "See, we charged him; now shut up!"
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Pressure release valve. This does have a certain whiff of fear to it.
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To paraphrase Pelosi "We have to make the charges so we can dismiss the charges."
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If they charge him and dismiss the charges, he becomes insulated from being charged again.
He wanted insurance.
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Double jeopardy applies to being acquitted at trial. Prosecutors re-file charges all the time.
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The laundry is the plea deal like what Hunter is getting.
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[NYPOST] Even Manhattan’s progressive top prosecutor is fearful of crime on the subway system.
District Attorney Alvin Bragg admitted his alarm when asked Tuesday about the perception of many New Yorkers that the Big Apple is under siege and becoming increasingly unsafe.
"I know the statistics that transit crime is down, but when one of my family members gets on the train, I, too, get a knot in my stomach," Bragg confessed in an interview with FOX5.
The soft-on-criminals prosecutor appeared to reference the latest NYPD data that show major crime in the city’s subway system being down 4.6% in the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2022.
But last month alone, transit crime actually spiked more than 18%, with 195 incidents compared to the 165 over the course of June last year, the data shows.
Among the savage incidents last month was a string of subway slashings in which alleged maniac Kemal Rideout, 28, attacked three women over a 20-minute span on June 18 in Manhattan.
#4
Yes, similar to how Scandinavian countries have "better than USA" infant mortality rates because any newborn deemed "unviable" isn't counted in their stats.
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Oh yeah? When was the last time that fat toad or any of his family ever rode the subway? You're trying to tell me they don't ride around in limousines at taxpayers' expense?
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Hovertaxis, as soon as the lift technology catches up with his chin.
[NYPOST] Sparks flew Wednesday as Rep. Matt Gaetz asked FBI Director Christopher Wray about whether the bureau is running interference for the first family.
Gaetz (R-Fla.) opened his questioning by reading WhatsApp messages from July and August 2017 in which Hunter Biden demanded money from a Chinese business associate.
"Sounds like a shakedown, doesn’t it, Director?" Gaetz asked.
When Wray declined to opine on the matter, Gaetz lit into him.
"You seem deeply uncurious about it, don’t you? Almost suspiciously uncurious. Are you protecting the Bidens?" the Republican shot back without missing a beat.
[BREITBART] The Biden administration on Monday slammed the Republican-controlled House’s version of 2024 National Defense Authorization Act for requiring military personnel decisions to be based on merit and not race or gender, among other provisions.
"The Administration strongly opposes the House’s sweeping attempts...to eliminate the Department’s longstanding [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Access] efforts and related initiatives to promote a cohesive and inclusive force," the Biden administration said in a Statement of Administration Policy.
The House’s NDAA contains a number of Republican-authored provisions to roll back the Biden administration’s efforts to push Marxist-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives throughout the entire Department of Defense establishment, including the military.
It also contains a number of Republican-backed provisions to give troops kicked out over following the Biden administration’s COVID-19 mandate a path back into the military with backpay.
The Biden administration specifically said it opposed Section 364, which would prohibit the defense secretary from appointing or employing a military or civilian employee whose duties include diversity, equity, and inclusion with a rank or grade above O-2 (military) or GS-10 (civilian).
It also said it opposed Section 523, which required the Department of Defense to issue policy that all military accessions, assignments, selections, or promotions must adhere to merit-based principles and that quotas are prohibited.
Those particular provisions were authored by Navy veteran and Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN), who told Breitbart News in a statement:
It’s incredibly dangerous that the Biden administration is opposed to merit based promotions. When our service members are in life or death situations, we need the best leaders, period.
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It would be interesting to see when they go after the standardized testing for junior enlisted promotions, evaluation systems and competency testing.
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I could be wrong, but I believe MOS Testing was done away with years ago.
[Epoch Times] Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill seeking to strengthen election integrity and boost voter confidence in American elections by implementing measures like requiring voter ID in some cases and ensuring that only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections.
House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) introduced the American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act on Monday. They DO love their acronyms The legislation "makes the biggest legislative effort in a generation to protect political speech in a climate where Democrats are doing everything in their power to determine ’truth’ and silence conservative voices," the bill summary states. That's not gonna get too many (D) votes.
The bill makes it clear that it’s a felony offense for a noncitizen to vote in a federal election and asks the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, and other relevant federal agencies to provide voter data to states at no cost so that noncitizens and deceased voters can be removed from voter rolls.
States would be empowered to remove noncitizens from voter rolls immediately without a blackout period. Until some judge declares it 'really bad'.
States that allow noncitizens to vote in state and local elections would have to maintain separate ballots for those races in case they coincide with a federal election, but they would also receive 30 percent less federal funding for election expenses under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
The ACE Act would modernize the first-time mail voter ID requirement in HAVA. All first-time voters who did not register in person at their local election office or through a state voter registration agency would have to provide ID when they vote.
The bill would require that certain voters who request a mail ballot also provide an ID. It would also reform the REAL ID Act to ensure that U.S. citizenship is printed on all qualifying voters’ identification documents after Jan. 1, 2026.
Under the bill, the DHS Disinformation Governance Board would also be officially terminated and any future similar entities would be prohibited.
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There is a fundamental difference between what the Libs say they are doing and what they actually are doing. They say that residents should have a local say, but their goal is to get them on the voter rolls, so that they can parlay an equal protection case into them voting in national elections.
The issue is loyalty. Many Europeans argue that they should be able to vote in American elections because America is powerful and impacts them. They are not as interested in having us vote in their elections, though.
Non-citizens may or may not have American prosperity as their goal. This effort is another case of libs trying to paint our ship in barnacles. Instead we need to be cleaning the rolls of dead people, non-citizens and inactive voters by making good laws and enforcing them. The industrial cheating only works on a foundation of bad voter rolls.
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"What if a non-citizen person is a here on a legally issued work VISA"
Rip up the foreigner's visa and send them packing.
Non-citizens who want to use the laws/culture of the Unites States against the Unites States, the notion should be rejected and the former-guest should have their visa work status rescinded. Ciao.
This idea of non-citizens voting is so foreign to me, does not compute.
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The mere title of this is beyond outrageous. It's ILLEGAL. Nothing more to say. This ridiculous, insulting stunt is little more than a way to soft sell it in the traditional Republican, 'there's nothing anybody can do' stance. All in Floyd the barber's warbling voice and confused tonality.
I would also offer that I really don't care about their visas, if they even troubled to get those. Screw 'em, as unto tears. If it's that important, become a citizen. Otherwise, oh wait, that's right...Screw 'em.
Every one of the globally sick, lame, and lazy feels way more than entitled to whittle just a bit off America. Screw the chiseling lot of them. Maybe, just maybe they could endeavor to make something out of their own country and location.
[IsraelTimes] Letter slams decision to restore longstanding policy that refrained from funding research projects beyond Green Line, as White House weighs whether to tap new envoy to Israel
A group of 14 Republican senators threatened on Tuesday to block US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... ’s nominations over what it characterized as the administration’s "antisemitic" decision to cease funding scientific research at Israeli institutions beyond the Green Line — a longstanding policy that was only annulled by the previous administration.
"Candidly, it is untenable for State Department officials to continue testifying to Congress that they support the US-Israel relationship and then — once out of view — to push policies designed to undermine that relationship," states a letter to Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken that was spearheaded by Sen. Ted Cruz; ...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet... . "Without a reversal in these trends, Congressional oversight and the expeditious vetting of nominees would become intractable."
A Republican decision to act on the threat would spell bad news for Biden, as a degree of bipartisan support is needed in order for him to get his nominees confirmed by the Senate, where the Democrats have a slim majority.
The harsh rhetoric also provides a window into the Biden administration’s ostensible hesitance to nominate a new ambassador to Israel to replace Tom Nides who steps down this week. With the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict as politicized as ever on Capitol Hill, any nominee will likely come under intense Republican scrutiny, both over their own record on the matter as well as the administration’s.
In their Tuesday letter, the senators wrote: "We also write to emphasize that any effort to deepen American policies that discriminate between territories Israel controlled before and after June 1967 will risk a full rupture in my/our ability to engage the Department of State on these issues."
Late last month, the State Department publicly confirmed that it had recently informed relevant government agencies "that engaging in bilateral scientific and technological cooperation with Israel, in geographic areas, which came under the administration of Israel after 1967 and which remain subject to final status negotiations is inconsistent with US foreign policy."
The Biden administration’s guidance represented a return to longstanding limitations on US support for scientific research before the Trump administration scrapped the restriction in 2020.
It is also very narrow in scope and likely to largely impact just one university located in the northern West Bank settlement of Ariel. Despite pressure from progressives, the administration did not go as far as to revoke the so-called Pompeo Doctrine, the policy unveiled by former president Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s secretary of state Mike Pompeo in 2019 deeming settlements "not per se inconsistent with international law."
Pompeo overturned a 1978 memo by State Department legal adviser Herbert Hansell, which characterized settlements as illegal.
Nonetheless, the Senate Republicans insisted in their Tuesday letter that "the new guidance as written constitutes an antisemitic boycott of Israel."
"The United States has embraced the working definition of antisemitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which includes double standards targeting Israel or Israeli Jews," the senators wrote, ostensibly arguing that refraining from funding research projects in the settlements constitutes a double standard rooted in antisemitism.
There ain’t nothing ostensible about it, guys.
The IHRA definition and its examples do not touch on the issue of settlements but its citation in the GOP letter could legitimize fears by progressive Jewish groups that it is being "weaponized" by conservatives to stifle criticism of Israeli policy in the West Bank.
For their part, the Republican senators claimed that the administration did not consult Biden’s antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt before issuing the guidance.
Asked to comment on the Republican senators’ allegation that the administration policy constituted an "antisemitic boycott of Israel," Lipstadt’s office did not respond.
The Jewish Democratic Council of America did respond to the Republican claim though, saying that "Republican attempts to misconstrue the Biden administration’s return to long-standing bipartisan US policy on the West Bank as antisemitic have no basis in reality."
Not bipartisan if the Republicans object, dudes.
"Republican threats to derail Biden administration nominees will leave critical national security posts vacant,"
...vacant being better than unacceptable...
said Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. "The administration would be more likely to put forward nominees, including to serve as the next ambassador to Israel, if Republicans wouldn’t continue to derail, obstruct and threaten critically important nominations."
This is the advise part of the Senatorial responsibility to advise and consent. When advice is ignored, consent disappears.
[NYPOST] Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... ’s gift for soaring oratory
...is that what they’re calling it? How odd...
in front of big audiences was a formidable political weapon, but probably the most important thing he ever said was uttered in private.
Speaking to a fellow Democrat about Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... being the party’s nominee in 2020, Obama famously warned, "Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f—k things up."
And yet he supported the man’s candidacy. So he should get partial credit for the result.
There is no legitimate claim the former president was wrong about his vice president.
The evidence that he was on target is everywhere, from the border to the economy to the crime explosion on Biden’s watch.
Then there is Ukraine, which offers proof of Obama’s point in a different way.
It shows that even on the rare occasion when Biden gets the big policy right, he still finds ways to "f—k things up."
Witness the bizarre timing of the president’s recent statements about Ukraine’s bid to join NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... and his administration’s contorted defense of why it is planning to send cluster bombs to the Ukrainian military.
Each misstep on a key detail undercuts the overall enterprise and risks the loss of public support for an expensive foreign policy.
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Biden/Dem massive spending has caused US Gov debt to increase 1 trillion $ in the past 5 days in interest only on the debt, which is historic. This has caused the value of the US dollar to drop sharply in the last week. If this compounding continues each week, this is a raging house fire never seen before in our history.
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We knew he would screw up the country. Biden has screwed up the country beyond our expectations. Forty percent of the polled approve of the way Joe has screwed up the country. Ten percent of those folks are disappointed that he did not screw it up worse.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] Even Manhattan’s progressive top prosecutor is fearful of crime on the subway system.
[NYPOST] Sparks flew Wednesday as Rep. 
[BREITBART] The Biden administration on Monday slammed the Republican-controlled House’s version of 2024 National Defense Authorization Act for requiring military personnel decisions to be based on merit and not race or gender, among other provisions.
The legislation "makes the biggest legislative effort in a generation to protect political speech in a climate where Democrats are doing everything in their power to determine ’truth’ and silence conservative voices," the bill summary states.
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
