The Department of Justice filed a legal document yesterday that disclosed the precise locations of backup generators, reinforced blast doors, and a single vulnerable cable for a secret underground installation beneath the White House ballroom. The filing, entered in federal court by acting associate deputy attorney general Stanwood Word, was intended to argue against a lawsuit blocking construction. It instead provided a step-by-step guide to disabling the facility’s entire electronic countermeasure system.
A three-page attachment labeled “Security Infrastructure Summary” noted that the entire power grid could be neutralized by severing a blue wire adjacent to a maintenance closet on sublevel B. The document did not explain why this detail was included in a public filing. It did include a footnote thanking a mechanical subcontractor for “prompt service.”
“We believe the court deserves a complete picture of the protective measures taken for a president who has faced three assassination attempts in under two years,” said Word, who previously represented several January 6 defendants. He added that the blue wire disclosure was “standard practice for motion practice of this type” and that most building schematics “get redacted later, usually.”
The filing was submitted on behalf of the General Services Administration, which oversees White House maintenance. The GSA referred all questions to the DOJ. The DOJ referred all questions to a phone number that played a recording of a flushing toilet.
Construction on the ballroom facility began months before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, an event the DOJ now cites as a justification for increased security. The filing describes the dinner as a “mass-casualty risk scenario” that required an underground medical suite and a tunnel to a helipad. It does not reference the January 6 attack, during which a mob breached the Capitol using flagpoles and bear spray.
The Leather-Faced Piss Bag promoted the filing on social media, calling it “a perfect, totally legal filing by great patriots.” The former president did not address the blue wire.
