Three high-profile cases that angered some Republicans in Congress have been reopened or given more resources by the FBI, according to Deputy Director Dan Bongino's announcement on Monday.
A 2021 pipe bomber on the evening of January 6, the discovery of cocaine at the Biden White House during the Fourth of July weekend in 2023, and a leaked draft of a historic Supreme Court decision are all part of these cases, as Breitbart News reported.
"Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest," Bongino posted on X. "We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases."
"I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress," he added. "If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI."
The Secret Service dropped the case on July 12, 2023, after concluding that it could not identify a suspect, despite the fact that cocaine was discovered at the White House in July 2023, over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
There was, allegedly, no surveillance footage of the drug incident, according to the White House. Investigators claimed that hundreds of people had access to the location where the cocaine was, according to law enforcement at the time.
"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 FBI said in a statement that July.
"At this time, the Secret Service's investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence."
House Republicans voiced their disapproval of the investigation's conclusion, claiming that it put the White House's security at risk.
"This alarming development requires the Committee to assess White House security practices and determine whose failures led to an evacuation of the building and finding of the illegal substance," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, (R-KY), wrote on July 7 to then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
The leak of the judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson, which sent abortion rights choices to the states after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, is also being investigated by the FBI. After looking into the leak, the investigation authority of the Supreme Court was unable to identify the leaker.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito authored the opinion that was leaked and published by Politico on May 2, 2022.
The court was unable to identify the leaker of the opinion, even though an internal investigation questioned more than a hundred Supreme Court personnel. However, during the course of the investigation, no justices were examined.
"Yesterday's unprecedented leak is an attempt to severely damage the Supreme Court," then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise said at the time.
"This clearly coordinated campaign to intimidate and obstruct the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, and its independence in our political system, from upholding the Constitution must be immediately investigated by the court."
