The Secret Service has refused to turn over the list of individuals who may have accessed the area of the White House where authorities discovered cocaine over the Fourth of July weekend, saying that the record of such a list does not fall under the Freedom of Information Act.
"Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I respectfully request the following records from the United States Secret Service regarding the White House cocaine investigation," the Oversight Project's director, Mike Howell, wrote in a letter to the Secret Service.
Bradbury said the pertinent question should be whether the Secret Service created its own new record using information from the White House visitor and staff logs.
If the White House produced a list of all the people who visited, but "The Secret Service took that information and created a new document on its systems, which was its own list of suspects that it generated, that new document should" fall under the scope of the Freedom of Information Act, he said.
The Secret Service and the Secret Service FOIA office did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.
On July 2, a Sunday, Secret Service officers found a suspicious white substance inside a vestibule leading to the lobby area of the West Executive Avenue entrance to the White House.
The FBI "Did not develop latent fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for investigative comparisons," so the Secret Service concluded that it "Is not able to compare evidence against the known pool of individuals," according to a Secret Service press release.
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