The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a fresh investigation into the discovery of cocaine in former President Joe Biden’s White House in 2023, as well as the 2022 leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
Dan Bongino, the bureau’s deputy director and former conservative talk show host, announced the probes in an X post on May 26.
The decision to “re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention” to these cases was made together with FBI Director Kash Patel.
“Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest,” Bongino wrote.
The nation’s premier federal law enforcement bureau will also be focusing on the case of an unknown suspect planting pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic national committees’ Washington headquarters in January of 2021 before the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol tied to the certification of Biden’s White House victory in the 2020 election.
Bongino said he has requested weekly briefings on all three cases and that “we are making progress.”
Citing “a lack of physical evidence,” a small bag of cocaine was found in a cubby near the entrance to a work area of the West Wing of the White House over the 4th of July holiday weekend in 2023. It drew comments from Republicans, including then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who said it was implausible the drugs could belong to anyone beyond President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
The Biden family was away from Washington at the time, and the White House said such allegations were “incredibly irresponsible.”
Both White House staffers and tour groups use that entrance to the executive wing of the complex. As there were no fingerprints or DNA found on the bag, the Secret Service deemed it impossible to identify a person of interest, and the investigation was closed.
Bongino, previously a rightwing podcaster, has alleged, with no evidence, that he has spoken with whistleblowers who said they were “suspicious” that evidence from the White House cocaine bag “could match a member of the inner Biden circle.”
The Supreme Court’s draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended the constitutional right to abortion, was published by Politico on May 2, 2022, and provoked condemnation from Trump, who called the source of the leak “slime” and demanded that the journalists involved be imprisoned until they revealed who it was.