{"id":1966983,"date":"2023-07-07T17:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-secret-service-agents-detail-security-implications-of-cocaine-discovery-at-white-house\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T21:09:54","slug":"former-secret-service-agents-detail-security-implications-of-cocaine-discovery-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-secret-service-agents-detail-security-implications-of-cocaine-discovery-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Secret Service Agents Reveal Cocaine&#8217;s Security Impact at White House."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fformer-secret-service-agents-detail-security-implications-of-cocaine-discovery-at-white-house%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=1966983&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--><h2>The Discovery of Cocaine at the White House Raises Security Concerns<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The recent discovery of cocaine at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-aircraft-carrier-strike-group-heads-for-mediterranean-amid-russia-threats\/\" title=\"U.S Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Heads for Mediterranean amid Russia Threats\">sparked discussions<\/a> about the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-antrim-co-forensic-report-bombshell-reveals-dominion-machines-were-set-at-68-05-error-ratemeaning-68-05-of-ballots-could-be-sent-out-for-mass-adjudication-giving-individuals-or-ma\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Antrim Co. Forensic Report BOMBSHELL Reveals Dominion Machines Were Set At 68.05% Error Rate\u2026Meaning 68.05% Of Ballots Could Be Sent Out For Mass Adjudication, Giving Individuals Or Machines Ability To Change 68.05% Of Votes\">security protocols<\/a>, according to two former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/secret-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secret Service<\/a> agents who spoke with The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Implications for Security Protocols<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Robert McDonald, a former agent who now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-secret-service-agents-detail-security-implications-of-cocaine-discovery-at-white-house\/\" title=\"Ex-Secret Service Agents Reveal Cocaine's Security Impact at White House.\">teaches criminal justice<\/a> at the University of New Haven in Connecticut, emphasized that the outcome of the investigation into how cocaine ended up inside the White House will determine the ultimate takeaway from this incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhile this was cocaine, it certainly could have been something else that either went undetected or was somehow secreted in something that wasn\u2019t able to be visible by the officers,\u201d McDonald said in an interview with The Daily Wire. \u201cThis will be an opportunity for the Secret Service to continue to better its procedures and protocols, to evaluate and reevaluate what they\u2019re doing so that something like this doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McDonald highlighted that Secret Service members who screen individuals entering the White House employ much more complex and robust procedures compared to those used at sporting events. He commended the officers in charge of screening, stating that they are highly skilled at their jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe still need to figure out how this got in there, who brought it in. Once we figure out those answers, I think that\u2019s going to be able to show us whether the Secret Service missed something here or if it was brought in by someone who potentially didn\u2019t go through screening,\u201d McDonald said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He criticized the messaging coming out of the White House regarding the discovery, describing it as &#8220;incredibly poor&#8221; and leading to more speculation. McDonald referred to Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-staffer-says-hatch-act-bars-him-from-taking-questions-about-cocaine-at-the-wh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comments<\/a> on Air Force One, where he cited the Hatch Act as preventing him from commenting on the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McDonald also mentioned that Secret Service agents themselves are subject to frequent drug testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Charles Marino, another former agent who is now the CEO of Sentinel Security, expressed confidence in the Secret Service&#8217;s ability to quickly narrow down the list of suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBased on where the cocaine was found, I\u2019m pretty confident that it was not there for a long period of time, based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ken-cuccinelli-fence-being-built-around-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"Ken Cuccinelli: Fence being built around U.S. Capitol\">security measures<\/a>, the sweeps of that area. So that gives the Secret Service some type of a time frame,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to media reports, the cocaine was discovered on Sunday in a cubby by the lower West Wing entrance, which is immediately accessible from West Executive Avenue. Marino emphasized that this area is restricted and secured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marino explained that the area would be accessible to outsiders being escorted on a tour by individuals with a West Wing pass, including those who work in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1688648178298000&#038;usg=AOvVaw10v0UGh9BJZV8inaPuI6t7\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marino emphasized the importance of allowing the investigation to run its course before drawing conclusions.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe investigation is going to determine here how this entered the complex. If you have, for example, a family member or a higher-level person that does not have to undergo such screening scrutiny, then that\u2019s going to be one aspect that needs to be looked at. If it\u2019s ultimately found [that the cocaine] came through the normal screening process to enter the White House, then that\u2019s going to, I think, enact other responses,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House cocaine discovery may impact future security protocols, claim ex-Secret Service agents. Robert McDonald, a former agent now teaching at the University of New Haven, emphasized the significance of this incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1966984,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1966983","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}