WWW- THE U.S. Secret Service is looking into the mystery of what appears to be Jenna Bush’s college ID card that she allegedly left at a bar during a night of partying – after the Feds read about it on PAGE SIX.
On Monday, we broke a story about fun-loving First Daughter Jenna supposedly losing her University of Texas ID and wads of cash at trendy Lower East Side bar Happy Ending. Travis Poston, who runs Web site tbirdshow.com, has video footage of an unidentified man showing what appears to be Jenna’s ID from the University of Texas at Austin, which graduated her last year.
In the videotaped interview, the stranger tells Poston that he’d been hanging out with Jenna, 23, at the Broome Street watering hole, and that she’d left her wallet behind with the card and $1,000 in cash.
After our story ran, we got a call from First Lady Laura Bush’s spokeswoman, Susan Whitson, who blasted us for running the piece and claimed it wasn’t true.
But the Secret Service thought our story was solid enough to assign Special Agent Bill Noonan to the case. Poston got a curt e-mail from Noonan on Tuesday that read: “Please contact Special Agent Bill Noonan, United States Secret Service, reference NY Post article dated 12/5/05.”
Noonan then paid Poston a visit and obtained a copy of the tape. After presumably viewing the footage, Noonan called Poston back and asked if he knew the identity of the man who appears on it.
In the tape, Poston asks the man to tell his wildest tale about Happy Ending. The tipsy talker says on camera that he’s known in the neighborhood for “selling cocaine,” then names various well-known rockers who allegedly bought drugs from him. Finally, the man pulls out Jenna Bush’s supposed ID, shows it to the camera, and tells Poston that Bush left the card behind after he’d “hit on her.”
Despite the shaky camera, Jenna’s name, photo and the words “University of Texas” can clearly be seen – although, of course, IDs are often faked. We went back to Whitson, who again denied our account: “Jenna has not lost her wallet. She’s never been to Happy Ending. Your story is wrong.”
It’s possible the ID is fake – or that it’s real, but was lost somewhere else. Agent Noonan did not return our calls.