DEI, baby.
Susan Crabtree
@susancrabtree
EXCLUSIVE and BREAKING: During a Donald Trump visit to North Carolina yesterday, a woman Secret Service special agent abandoned her post to breastfeed with no permission/warning to the event site agent, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
Shortly before Trump's motorcade arrival -- I'm told five minutes beforehand -- the site agent was getting ready for the arrival. (The site agent is the person in charge of the entire event's security.)
The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president.
A working agent on duty cannot bring a child to a protective assignment. The woman was out of the Atlanta Field Office.
The woman agent was in the room with two other family members.
The agent and her family members bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint and were escorted by an unpinned event staff into the room to breastfeed, the sources said. Unpinned means they have not been cleared by the Secret Service to be there.
When contacted about the incident, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the incident did not have an impact on the event. and it's under review.
"All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards," he said. "While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further."
Crabtree also reports that Ted Cruz and Darryl Issa are suggesting that the Secret Service covered up the whole Hunter Biden Cocaine sitch.
Cruz, Issa Demand Answers on Possible Secret Service Cocaine 'Cover-Up'
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The two Republican lawmakers, who serve in key Judiciary Committee roles in the Senate and the House, cited revelations from a RealClearPolitics article last week that former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and senior agency leaders sought to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer. Despite the push, leaders of the Forensics Services and the Uniformed Divisions rejected efforts to dispose of the evidence and presumably are keeping the bag of cocaine in a Secret Service evidence vault.
White and his supervisor, Glenn Dennis, as well as Richard Macauley, then-acting chief of the Uniformed Division, resisted pressure from Cheatle and others to destroy the evidence. Afterward, however, Macauley was passed over for the permanent position of Uniformed Division chief despite receiving agency accolades, RCP reported last week. The decision to bypass Macauley, a black man, raised eyebrows within the agency amid a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion push that Cheatle championed.
Cheatle chose a retired Secret Service top official to head the Uniformed Division instead of Macauley, raising concerns in the agency that passing over Macauley for the job was an act of retaliation...
White is responsible for a vault where evidence, including the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, is stored for seven years, per agency evidence protocols. According to several sources in the Secret Service community who spoke to RCP on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, White received a call from Cheatle or a someone speaking on her behalf last summer pressing him to destroy the evidence after the cocaine was tested by the Homeland Security Department's Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center and the FBI's crime laboratory for fingerprint and DNA analysis.
This is interesting: They found a "partial hit" on the DNA left in the bag.
This means that while they did not find a direct hit, that is, they did not match the DNA to someone in the database, they found a, let us say, "family resemblance" of that DNA to someone in the database.
Gee, who could it be?
Those two agencies found that it was cocaine, not anthrax or another biothreat. While the FBI did not pick up fingerprints on the small bag of cocaine, it found some DNA material, according to three sources in the Secret Service community. The FBI also reportedly said the agency ran the DNA material against national criminal databases and "got a partial hit."
The term "partial hit" is vague in this context, but in forensics lingo usually means that law enforcement found DNA matching a blood relative of a finite pool of people.
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"On July 12, the Secret Service received the FBI's laboratory results, which did not develop latent fingerprints, and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons," Guglielmi said. "Therefore, the Secret Service is not able to compare evidence against the known pool of individuals."
"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," Guglielmi continued. "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."
How about we just get a DNA swab from one to three people? Hunter Biden, Ashley Biden, and Joe Biden?
Because you know that's what the "partial hit" was detecting. Someone in the Biden family is in the DNA database, either because they're a criminal, or because, as president, there have probably been a lot of times Joe Biden has been swabbed.
Related: What kind of person do you think the FBI is looking to recruit with its Recruitment Lattes?