Secret Ser­vice denies White House cocaine report

The Secret Ser­vice has denied a report that for­mer Direc­tor Kim­ber­ly Chea­tle and oth­er agency lead­ers want­ed to destroy cocaine found in the White House.
“This is false. The US Secret Ser­vice takes its inves­tiga­tive and pro­tec­tive respon­si­bil­i­ties very seri­ous­ly,” agency spokesman Antho­ny Gugliel­mi said. “There are reten­tion poli­cies for crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions and the Secret Ser­vice adhered to those require­ments dur­ing this case.”
A sto­ry in Real­Clear­Pol­i­tics cit­ed three anony­mous sources with­in the Secret Ser­vice who claimed that Chea­tle, who recent­ly resigned in the fall­out from the attempt­ed assas­si­na­tion of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, reas­signed an offi­cer who want­ed to fol­low a spe­cif­ic crime scene inves­tiga­tive pro­to­col after the dis­cov­ery. Guglielmi’s state­ment did not address that aspect of the report.
Aside from the nov­el­ty of illic­it drugs being found inside the exec­u­tive man­sion, trou­bled first son Hunter Biden was stay­ing in the White House in the days before the cocaine was dis­cov­ered on July 2 and then pub­licly re …