The U.S. Secret Service has refused to provide The Heritage Foundation with a list of people possibly involved in the White House cocaine incident, claiming that such records are outside its authority.
After the Secret Service closed the investigation into the cocaine discovery in mid-July, the Heritage Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the list of hundreds of individuals who may have accessed the area where the substance was found.
"As your request seeks records reflecting visitors or related information concerning the Office of the President, please be advised that these records are not Secret Service agency records subject to the FOIA," the letter read. "Rather, these records are governed by the Presidential Records Act and remain under the exclusive legal custody and control of the White House."
This isn't the first time that the Secret Service has turned down a FOIA request on the White House cocaine issue.
The cocaine was found in the White House on the evening of July 3, with the Secret Service confirming the discovery and proposing that it was brought in by someone who works there or had authorization to enter the area where it was found.
"Therefore, the Secret Service is not able to compare evidence against the known pool of individuals," the Secret Service stated.
"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 into the White House with ZERO suspects! But the DOJ is still arresting and prosecuting more people for J6," she wrote in a July 13 Twitter post.
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