The Secret Service reported on Thursday that it had closed its investigation into how cocaine ended up at the White House without identifying a suspect, CNN first reported.
The agency statement came after congressional Republicans said they were told in a classified briefing that the investigation into the cocaine found in the White House West Wing earlier this month was concluded 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."
None of this is sitting well with Georgia Rep Marjorie Taylor Green who recently got booted from the right-wing House Freedom Caucus.
"With all the drug testing tools available, a list of approx 500 people, surveillance cameras, fingerprints, and more, the Secret Service is ending their investigation on who brought cocaine in the White House with ZERO suspects! But the DOJ is still arresting and prosecuting more people for J6," she wrote, per Salon.
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."
House members were told about 182 lockers where visitors are told to store their electronics and cell phone, and that the cocaine was found in one of them.
GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert insisted the key to the locker is missing.
"There's no collateral system in place. There's no assigning of the lockers. And this was one of the concerns I raised to Secret Service. We need to be able to track individuals and which locker they are using," she said.
"Anything revolving around "Biden Inc" gets treated different than any other American and that's got to stop," House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said.
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