We live in a third world banana republic.

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Originally posted by bionic218:

Nobody saw shit, nobody knows shit.

Omertà.

On the off chance that a Republican gets elected this time around, he/she needs to bring their own competent security & fire everybody in the Secret Service.

Doing a thorough house cleaning of the Justice Dept, CIA, and FBI should be one of their first jobs too. Ever since Obama they've all been nothing but political tools for democrats.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
It has been stated that fingerprints were found on the bag and identified. Doesn't that count as "evidence"?

flashguy

It's only evidence if the want it to be evidence.

Remember, in our current justice system everyone is equal, although Democrats and Bidens/Kennedys/Clintons are more equal than others.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:

Remember, in our current justice system everyone is equal, although Democrats and Bidens/Kennedys/Clintons are more equal than others.

Justice is blind, right? But what they don't tell you is that Lady Justice is only wearing that blindfold so she doesn't see the scales being tipped one way or the other.

Secret Service sacrificing its reputation to protect drug offender in the White House
By Thomas Lifson

See also: The case of the missing fingerprint

Another formerly revered federal agency joins in disgrace the politicized FBI, IRS, and Department of Justice. The Secret Service took just 11 days to close its investigation of the class A illegal drug, cocaine, found in the White House with a figurative shrug of the shoulders and a mumbled “I dunno.”

Following a classified briefing for members of Congress, the federal protective agency issued an official statement claiming:

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. 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.

This does not pass the giggle test. Taking only 11 days to investigate a very serious matter like this and then closing the investigation without interrogating and drug testing the very limited number of people who could have left anything in the locker in question bespeaks a desire to avoid finding the culprit. Considering the vast ongoing effort to identify anyone who could have approached the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the lack of curiosity, paucity of resources employed, and the speed in wrapping up the investigation with no suspect, there is no other conclusion than a cover up is likely underway.

There are many reasons to be suspicious and not grant the presumption of integrity. First is the way that the story kept changing. Bonchie of RedState has chronicled the classic sign of lying that changing the story usually indicates:

At first, the cocaine was claimed to have been “near” the White House (and that it wasn’t regular cocaine). A day later, a report came out that it was actually found in the White House Library with the implication being that a tourist left it behind. Next, we were told that the drugs were found at the West Executive Entrance. Lastly, the White House came out and said the baggie was placed in a cubby used to deposit electronic devices, with the blame being pointed at construction workers.

In other words, the entire situation has been an incoherent mess with a constantly changing narrative. That has made many suspicious and for good reason. Why would anyone believe anything the Biden administration has to say after taking people on that wild ride?

Further cause for suspicion is the fact that Press Secretary Katine Jean-Pierre lied about family members not being present in the White House the Friday before the Independence Day weekend. Piers Morgan took her to task for this and for her chastisement of members of the press who dared question her:

Add to that the fact that we are now told the “cubby” was actually a locker with a key. A key that is now missing. This was revealed by Rep. Lauren Boebert following the classified briefing:

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., told Fox News Digital that, during the briefing, she inquired about specific security measures in place for the lockers where the cocaine was found. Boebert said the Secret Service admitted that the key to the locker in question "is missing."

"There are 182 lockers in that foyer and currently... locker number 50 where the cocaine was found, that key is missing," Boebert said. "There were more than 500 people who went through the West Wing during the weekend of when this substance was found, when the cocaine was found in the White House, and none of those people who have come through are classified as suspects."

"We do not know how many were tourists, individual citizens, or staffers, and they currently are not looking any further into those more than 500 people who entered that foyer of the West Wing during that weekend," she said. "Instead, they are quickly wanting to close this investigation and move on to the next Biden crime crisis."

Boebert also told Fox News that she learned "there are no logs of the lockers. There's no video surveillance of the lockers."

Dan Bongino, who spent years as a Secret Service agent assigned to the White House is adamant that security screening would have detected the substance, and that the only possibility is that someone not subject to the screening – i.e., family members –could have brought in the coke.

There’s absolutely ZERO chance anyone other than a family member brought that cocaine inside the White House complex. No chance that would make it past the mag/security checkpoints. Family bypasses those.


Rep. Boebert also points her finger at the family:

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert said after the Secret Service briefing Thursday on cocaine found July 2 at the White House that drugs have been found two other times since last year in the building. (snip)

Boebert said the drug found twice before in roughly the past year was marijuana and that she thinks the Secret Service closed the investigation without a suspect "because everything in this administration is about covering up for the Biden crime family."

Because three members of the Biden family have admitted drug use problems in the past, they would be the obvious place to start with drug testing. My understanding is that cocaine residue is persistent and can be found in hair, so such a simple test, needing only a strand of hair from children Hunter and Ashley Biden and niece Caroline Biden, if she had recently visited the White House.

Note that Hunter’s absurdly lenient plea deal for other charges, not yet reviewed and approved by the judge in the case, would be invalidated if he were found to have broken the law by possessing cocaine. Aside from the familial turmoil that would cause, the prospect of prison time might well loosen his tongue about potentially illegal actions of his father. If, thst is, prosecutors were interested in pursuing such charges, as they would be absent political favoritism.

No mass drug testing has been undertaken for any of the people who might have left the baggie. Only a review of criminal records for drug offenses.

This was not a serious effort to identify the culprit. The most feared agencies of the federal government are laughing in our faces, and letting us know that a dual standard justice system exists, and that opponents of the regime can expect repression, while insiders are granted license to offend.

https://www.americanthinker.co...the_white_house.html

the head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, used to be on Biden’s security detail as vice president

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...ates-secret-service/

"I am proud to announce that I have selected Kim Cheatle to be the next Director of the United States Secret Service. Kim has had a long and distinguished career at the Secret Service, having risen through the ranks during her 27 years with the agency, becoming the first woman in the role of Assistant Director of protective operations.

When Kim served on my security detail when I was Vice President, we came to trust her judgement and counsel

In 2021, President Biden awarded Cheatle with a Presidential Rank Award, recognizing her among a select group of career members of the Senior Executive Service for exceptional performance over an extended period of time.

She has my complete trust, and I look forward to working with her."

Maybe Sherlock Holmes could provide us an answer to this dilemma.

A few here actually believe there was an actual investigation performed.

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Originally posted by oddball:
A few here actually believe there was an actual investigation performed.

Of course there was an investigation . How else did they form a basis for their lies ?

Yet the .gov FDA can pinpoint the EXACT cow that has bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Out of MILLIONS and MILLIONS and MILLIONS of heads of cattle.

Maybe the SS should put the FDA on the case…

Per Fox News this morning: So no suspect? Is there an appreciable difference between the democrapic party and organized crime?

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Originally posted by konata88:
Per Fox News this morning: So no suspect? Is there an appreciable difference between the democrapic party and organized crime?

Very little it appears other than who is funding them.

The thing for me is that for some years now, it's become apparent that we have a tiered justice system. There's at least three distinct classes:

1) The people to whom the laws mostly actually apply to, as written. Essentially, the middle class, with some vertical wiggle room.

2) The people the laws don't apply to, which is the ultra-wealthy and the politicians on the left, with some porosity between those two because there are some who start as one and become the other and some who are already both just because.

3) The persecuted class to whom laws may or may not apply so long as it's to their detriment. The system is being used in all it's hulking legal and financial might to grind these people to dust. They are anyone who directly opposes the people in the second group and may come from anywhere in the social strata - this is purely political. See January 6th protestors still being held without charges.

Some would like to say this is conspiracy theory fluff, but it's been something long observed by too many people from too many walks of life in this country to say these things don't happen, that they aren't happening. Speaking just purely from observation, these things are objectively true.

If we start from there, then there's some conclusions I can't avoid: Whoever left the bag of coke wasn't in the third class, or they'd be in jail and facing charges. Hell, someone from the third class would've had a bag of coke planted on them or their fingerprints "found" on the bag in order to get rid of them. It would be a total media circus with Rachel Maddow and her ilk yapping about it non-stop.

If it was someone from the first class, their fingerprints would've been used to confirm it was their bag to match the footage of them leaving or dropping the bag of coke where it was found, that footage would be playing on a loop on every major news network in the nation, we would know their name and every other thing about them, and the news media would be airing interviews with their relatives and grade school classmates.

Those things haven't happened. What has happened is a changing story about where they found the bag, refusal by anyone who works or lives in the building to comment on it, and a closing of the ranks. The only thing I can conclude is that it's someone from the second class.

^^^^^^^^^Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time in a third world cesspool recognizes what you are describing. You are illustrating that we live in a third world cesspool. Anyone who has done that before knows that this fact should scare each of us to action.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
^^^^^^^^^Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time in a third world cesspool recognizes what you are describing. You are illustrating that we live in a third world cesspool. Anyone who has done that before knows that this fact should scare each of us to action.

What action do you suggest? We've tried the ballot box and found elections are fixed. We've discovered that the witness box doesn't work, either, since many prosecutors and judges are bought by the Leftists. What's left?

flashguy

Flash, I think the only answer for the average law abiding citizen is to study the third world and what kind lack of supplies, services, liberties, justice etc are typical so one can prepare against it. What creates third world cesspools are third world policies. Our culture and politics are full of those policies.

You get the justice you can afford. The charge of the secret service is to protect the political leadership, they are under homeland security, do they have a duty to report any crimes committed by those they protect? The IRS, the Justice department, and the FBI have all been weaponised against the political opponents of the left, why not the Secret Service? Threats are investigated, but what constitutes a threat?

These are dark days for the Republic, and will be thought of as such for at least 30, possibly up to 50 years. By then, the new people forget and the nation can begin it's new period of peril.