The FBI will revisit three high-profile political mysteries that have remained unsolved for years, including who brought cocaine into the White House during the Biden administration.
The bureau will reopen or invest more resources into the cases that FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said point to “potential public corruption.” In addition to the White House cocaine case, the FBI will take another look into who left a pair of undetonated pipe bombs at the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021, and the leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade in early 2022.
“Shortly after swearing in, [FBI Director Kash Patel] and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that understandably have garnered public interest. We made the decision to either re-open or push additional resources and investigative attention to these cases,” Mr. Bongino posted Monday on X.
“I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us, then please contact the FBI,” he said.
Roughly 22 months after the cocaine was discovered in a storage box near an entrance to the West Wing, the culprit remains a head-scratcher. The Secret Service closed the investigation in July 2023 after 11 days without interviewing a single suspect, leaving some to wonder if a suspect would ever be identified.
On July 2, 2023, a bag of cocaine was found inside a cubby near an entrance to the West Wing that is commonly used to give tours and where visitors are instructed to place their phones and other belongings. The cubby is located by the basement entrance to the West Wing, one floor below the Oval Office and just steps from the Situation Room.
President Biden and his family had left the White House for Camp David when the cocaine was discovered but they had been on campus earlier that day.
Lab testing later revealed the substance was cocaine, prompting the Secret Service to declare it would do “everything possible” to identify the culprit. But the probe ended with the agency saying there was no physical evidence such as fingerprints or DNA, and no cameras were in position to capture footage of the culprit.
The pipe bomb case has remained open since the devices were discovered just hours before the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In January 2025, the FBI released new details and a video showing a potential suspect leaving the pipe bombs outside the building. Authorities said they conducted 1,0000 interviews, reviewed 39,000 video files and probed 600 tips but could not identify the culprit.
Although the devices did not explode, the FBI concluded they were “viable.” A passerby identified the pipe bombs, prompting an evacuation of both committee headquarters.
In May 2022, Politico published a leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Healthcare, upholding a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks and leaving states to decide how to handle the procedure.
The leak set off a firestorm of protests at the homes of conservative justices and represented a shocking breach in security and confidentiality that surrounds the Supreme Court’s decisions.
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. ordered an investigation, but after eight months, the Marshal of the Supreme Court announced in 2023 that she was unable to identify the leaker.
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.