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the convoluted Benghaziing against the Biden administration plus coke and a smile [1]

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Date: 2023-07-10

Craziness continues

x The right wing is now *actually* claiming that Joe Biden lured a Chinese spy into doing Chinese spy stuff 4 years ago so they could ultimately discredit him by weaponizing an administration Biden hadn’t won yet and predicting we would lose the house in 2022. Huge if true. — Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) July 11, 2023

This is what James Comer said *yesterday* about his fake whistleblower who was just indicted for being a Chinese spy:" He's very credible and the people on MSNBC who made fun of me when I said we had an informant that was missing, they should feel like fools right now. And this is their worst nightmare." JAMES COMER'S “MISSING WHISTLEBLOWER”(Dr. Gal Luft, accused arms dealer)“Dr. Gal Luft, the “missing” witness in the House Oversight Committee’s Biden family corruption investigation was arrested February 2023 at the Larnaca International Airport, in southern Cyprus, after Interpol issued an arrest warrant against him on suspicion of arms trafficking to Libya and China.” - The Jerusalem Post“ Luft skipped bail in Cyprus while facing extradition to the United States where he is wanted for arms trafficking, has resurfaced, telling the New York Post he had to flee to avoid what he calls political persecution.” - The Times of Israel“Luft denies the US allegations, which include five charges relating to the Arms Export Control Act of conspiring to sell Chinese products to the United Arab Emirates, Kenya and Libya, as well as a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and of making a false statement.” - Cyprus Mail https://timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry

Coke in the White House. But no Adderall.

x BREAKING: The cocaine found in the White House was located “in a much more secure area” near the Situation Room.



“This was found in a much more secure place, limited access place than that West Wing reception area... it's down near the Situation Room right off west executive… pic.twitter.com/sinf3EToMx — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 6, 2023 There’s a high-octane mystery afoot at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: An unknown culprit brought cocaine into the West Wing of the White House over the weekend, leading to a brief evacuation on Sunday night. The confounding caper has captured the focus of the Secret Service, which is now investigating how a small baggy made its way into what the agency has described as a “work area of the West Wing.” Who would be this careless? While we technically don’t have any investigatory power, below are four potential suspects. 1. A holiday tourist? As further information emerges on the cocaine incident, the more it appears likely that the culprit was a tourist. Reuters reported on July 5 that the drugs were found “in a cubby hole at a West Wing entry where visitors place electronics and other belongings before taking tours,” according to a source familiar with the investigation. But on July 6, investigators told NBC News that the drugs were actually found in a cubby near the White House’s West Executive entrance. NBC states that “the entrance is near where some vehicles, like the vice president’s limo or SUV park. It is one floor below the main West Wing offices and the same floor as the Situation Room and a dining area.” It is also a heavily-trafficked entrance where tourists and staff frequently walk past. 2. A stressed-out staffer? Picture the scene: A lanyard-type staffer with big ol’ glasses got an invitation to do something fun and cool for once in Adams Morgan and picked up a gram or two to share — even if they were going to abstain because of the White House’s zero-tolerance drug policy…. 3. A prodigal son? One should give Hunter Biden the benefit of the doubt here. By all accounts, he has stuck with sobriety over the last four years despite the glaring national spotlight on his past behavior…. 4. An inside job? The Secret Service likes to party — and, according to ex-agents, liked to help philandering presidents party, too. While abroad, the presidential detail is notorious for raising hell. ... Other Republicans are taking the inquiry more seriously. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that the House Oversight Committee intends to take on the matter, while Senator Tom Cotton wrote a letter to the Secret Service demanding to know if the coke was “found in an area where confidential information is exchanged.” nymag.com/...

Cocaine in the White House? Chances are it’s not the first time – and the drug could well have been used by at least one past president, according to a leading presidential historian. [...] Professor Steve Gillon, a US historian at the University of Oklahoma, says he was “shocked” to make the discovery while researching his 2011 book, Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War. [...] Roosevelt’s official physician was a respected ear, nose and throat doctor named Ross McIntire, who would use cotton swabs to clear the president’s sinuses, a process witnessed by the attorney general Francis Biddle, who described in his notes McIntire “swabbing out FDR’s nose”. Gillon consulted medical journals and spoke to top ENT doctors familiar with the profession’s history who agreed: “Cocaine was the drug of choice” for the procedure back then, making it likely that Roosevelt had received it. “It was nothing unusual, it was common practice, and it wasn’t illegal,” Gillon says. (Even today, cocaine is a controlled substance that doctors can legally use in situations like sinus surgery.) We may never know for sure if Roosevelt was given cocaine, because his medical records went missing shortly after his death in 1945 – probably destroyed to cover up evidence that doctors knew how sick he was when running for a fourth term, Gillon says. But the president’s official schedule shows that he regularly met with McIntire for sinus treatments – including a session lasting over an hour on 7 December 1941, after learning of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. “It was surprising to me that on this momentous day in American history, Roosevelt takes time in the middle of the day to have this treatment,” Gillon says. But if Roosevelt was indeed receiving cocaine at the time, he says, we don’t know “whether it had any impact on his personality or the decisions he made that day”. Even if he was receiving it, there’s a good chance Roosevelt wouldn’t have known about it. According to the prevailing medical literature of the day, doctors were advised not to tell patients that they were receiving cocaine (“The habit-forming properties of this drug are well known and must be ever guarded against,” read one textbook). “Unless Roosevelt had asked, he would not have been told,” Gillon says. www.theguardian.com/...

x Kayleigh McEnany, who knows the White House and West Wing well, blows up the right’s obsession that the White House cocaine belonged to Hunter Biden:



“For it to be Hunter Biden, he left on Friday, he was at Camp David. There’s no way. It’s inconceivable to think cocaine could… pic.twitter.com/6Y0W8EvrE0 — Mike Sington (@MikeSington) July 6, 2023

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