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Article: Drug Use Worried Secret Service; Special Program to Test Some White House Staff Met Agency Concerns
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- The Washington Post
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- July 18, 1996
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The Secret Service in 1993 balked at granting permanent passes
to about a dozen people in the Clinton White House because of
concerns about recent use of illegal drugs that in some instances
included crack cocaine or hallucinogens, according to statements
special agents gave Congress.
The Secret Service said it dropped its objections and
granted the employees permanent White House access only after the
White House agreed to set up a special program that required people
with troubling drug backgrounds to undergo surprise drug tests twice
a year.
The White House has acknowledged previously that some of its
appointees were given jobs despite past drug use, and that some
employees ...