The White House on Monday defended the Secret Service’s investigation into the packet of cocaine found within the West Wing, regardless of the company’s lack of ability to discover a perpetrator or a lot proof.

“We believe that the Secret Service did a thorough investigation,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre informed reporters on the every day press briefing.

When requested about her earlier remarks expressing confidence that the Secret Service would determine a suspect within the case, Ms. Jean-Pierre repeated that it was “a thorough investigation.”

“Of course, we are going to have confidence that they are going to do their jobs to get to the bottom of this,” she mentioned. “That is something we have confidence in — always confidence in that.”

Ms. Jean-Pierre declined to debate President Biden’s response or whether or not he was dissatisfied that the Secret Service couldn’t discover the perpetrator.

The Secret Service closed its investigation final week, saying that the cocaine packet yielded no usable forensic proof together with fingerprints or DNA. Video footage of the world the place the packet was discovered additionally supplied no proof to slim the suspect listing, the company mentioned.

“Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered,” the Secret Service mentioned in an announcement.

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