{"id":1966935,"date":"2023-07-07T16:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-demands-secret-service-briefing-on-white-house-cocaine-discovery\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:32:57","slug":"comer-demands-secret-service-briefing-on-white-house-cocaine-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-demands-secret-service-briefing-on-white-house-cocaine-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Comer insists on Secret Service briefing for White House cocaine discovery."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcomer-demands-secret-service-briefing-on-white-house-cocaine-discovery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1966935&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>House Committee Chairman Calls for Secret Service Briefing on White House Cocaine Discovery<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, has demanded a briefing from the Secret Service regarding the recent discovery of cocaine in the White House.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This incident has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ice-nominee-took-trip-to-china-funded-by-cash-for-visas-advocacy-group\/\" title=\"Biden ICE Nominee Took Trip to China Funded by Cash-for-Visas Advocacy Group\">raised additional concerns<\/a> with the Committee regarding the level of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sparing-the-sacred-cow-republicans-and-democrats-refuse-to-touch-social-security-as-debt-crisis-looms\/\" title=\"Sparing The Sacred Cow: Republicans And Democrats Refuse To Touch Social Security As Debt Crisis Looms\">security maintained<\/a> at the White House,&#8221; Comer wrote in a Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/White-House-Secret-Service-Letter-Briefing-request-070723.pdf\">letter<\/a> to the Secret Service. &#8220;In order to assist the Committee with its investigation, please provide a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-scientist-told-fauci-coronavirus-could-have-been-engineered-days-later-he-called-it-a-crackpot-theory-republicans-wants-answers\/\" title=\"Top Scientist Told Fauci Coronavirus Could Have Been Engineered. Days Later, He Called It A \u2018Crackpot\u2019 Theory. Republicans Wants Answers.\">staff level briefing<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Comer, responsible for overseeing and investigating the federal government, has set a deadline of July 14 for the briefing.<\/p>\n<h3>White House Evacuated After Cocaine Discovery<\/h3>\n<p>The White House was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/cocaine-in-the-white-house-nothing-to-see-here\/\">evacuated<\/a> on Sunday when agents found a suspicious substance during a routine sweep. Subsequently, the substance was identified as cocaine. Notably, President Joe Biden and his immediate family, including his son Hunter Biden, were not present at the White House during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts of the discovery have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/who-left-cocaine-at-the-white-house-shifting-stories-make-it-difficult-to-determine\/\">varied<\/a> since the initial report.<\/p>\n<p>A dispatch call from the Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-demands-secret-service-briefing-on-white-house-cocaine-discovery\/\" title=\"Comer insists on Secret Service briefing for White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mystery-swirls-after-cocaine-found-in-white-house-west-wing\/\" title=\"Cocaine discovery in White House West Wing sparks mystery.\">cocaine discovery<\/a>.&#8221;>fire department initially stated<\/a> that the substance was found in the &#8220;library&#8221; of the executive mansion. However, a Secret Service spokesman later clarified that it was discovered in the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent reports have indicated that the drugs were <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/cocaine-in-the-white-house-nothing-to-see-here\/\">found<\/a> in a restricted area of the White House, on a day when public tours are typically not offered.<\/p>\n<p>Comer emphasized the need for his committee to &#8220;assess White House security practices and determine whose failures&#8221; led to this situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>letter to the Secret Service. He requested a briefing on the cocaine discovery at the White House, expressing concerns about the security measures in place. Rep. Comer, as the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, emphasized the need for further information to address these concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1966936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}