Former FBI director James Comey has slammed Dan Bongino and Kash Patel after they announced the bureau would be reopening the investigation of cocaine found at the White House. 

Appearing on CNN on Wednesday, the 64-year-old hit out at the new Director and his Deputy Director after the announced on X they would be reopening several cases. 

The cocaine investigation was listed by Bongino alongside the January 6 pipe bombing incident and the leak of a Supreme Court decision that indicated Roe v Wade was about to be overturned as being reopened.  

Comey said: ‘It’s a little confusing to me honestly, I’m sure it’s a huge adjustment to go from being a podcaster to being the Deputy Director of the FBI.

‘I don’t understand this tweet, I assume the investigation of the pipe bomb that was found on January 6 was never closed. The FBI never closes such a thing.

‘As to the other things, I thought the Supreme Court Marshall had investigated the leak of the draft opinion, I don’t know what the FBI’s role is there.

‘Cocaine at the White House, I thought the Secret Service investigated that. I don’t follow it, and I don’t understand it.’

He added: ‘The FBI often calls for public assistance, this seems much more narrowly targeted  – maybe to a former podcast audience.’

When asked if he was concerned about the FBI under the helm of Patel, he said: ‘I hope the career people are able to support the director and the deputy director.

‘I hope these two guys are letting them guide them. Nothing in their life or career gives me confidence that they know anything leading an organization.

‘I would have serious doubts, I bet they do internally about whether they have doubts. Let the people who know what they are doing give you advice and listen to them.’

The frequent podcast comments by Comey referred to Bongino who had hosted a podcast of his before joining the Trump administration. 

The cocaine was found inside the White house two days after recovering drug addict Hunter Biden had left with his father and family for their July 4th holiday weekend.

A Secret Service investigation into the drugs was closed in less than two weeks due to a ‘lack of evidence’ as security footage was not able to determine the owner.

‘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,’ it said in a statement.

The Biden family was away from Washington at the time of the discovery of the cocaine took place.

The White House repeatedly condemned accusations suggesting that the cocaine belonged to a Biden family member.

Trump repeatedly raised questions about the case, vowing new attention to the investigation.

‘Well, either Joe or Hunter. Could be Joe, too,’ he said when asked in February who he thought left cocaine in the locker.

It’s unclear what additional details a renewed investigation could reveal, as Trump previously revealed that evidence surrounding the incident had been removed.  

Trump speculated that the lockers had ‘hundreds and even thousands’ of fingerprints but that it had been wiped clean with ‘the strongest form of alcohol.’

‘When they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry,’ he said. ‘You know that, right?’

‘I think I’m going to look into that because it was… bad stuff happened there,’ he said.

Outside of the cocaine incident, the placing of pipe bombs near the RNC and DNC headquarters and the leak of the overturning Roe v. Wade to Politico in 2022 is being probed. 

‘I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI,’ he wrote.

The publication of the Supreme Court’s opinion ending the constitutional right to abortion in Politico on May 2, 2022, provoked condemnation from Trump.

He called the source of the leak ‘slime’ and demanded that the journalists involved be imprisoned until they revealed who it was.

Previous investigations into both cases, by the Secret Service and the Supreme Court, respectively, ended without identifying who was responsible for the cocaine or the leak, or the pipe bombs.