John Kirby Insists White House 'Did the Best They Could' With 11-Day Cocaine Investigation
Spencer Brown
John Kirby, President Biden's National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, got stuck in the hot seat on Fox News Sunday this week to answer for the rushed and inconclusive investigation into who brought cocaine into the West Wing and how they were able to get a baggie of the illicit drug into the White House complex. His response, indirectly, to criticism from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was as unsatisfying as the outcome of the investigation.
Noting that the Cocainegate investigation was "'case closed' in less than two weeks," Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream asked if Kirby could "understand that Americans, many of them, first of all, are aghast that there was ever cocaine in the White House" in addition to "reports of marijuana a couple of times found there last year as well."
Repeating a common line from the White House briefing room, Kirby initially responded to questions from FNS host Shannon Bream by saying he "can't really speak to" the U.S. Secret Service's investigation of Cocainegate. He did, however, repeat the White House's latest story of where the cocaine was found — "in a visitor's lobby area just outside the main West Wing," in a "highly trafficked area" — minimizing the fact that the cocaine was, in fact, found inside the West Wing just steps from the Situation Room. If that's not the "main West Wing," it's hard to imagine what is. What's more, "highly trafficked" sounds like Grand Central Station, something the West Wing is not.
Still, Kirby insisted to Bream that Cocainegate investigators "did the best they could to to track down how it got there and who it might have belonged to" the culprit.
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