By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-25 15:22:24 | Updated at 2024-10-02 04:29:49
6 days ago
New report details stunning Secret Service leadership failures around first Trump assassination attempt
https://www.cnn.com ^ | 9/25/2024 | Holmes Lybrand, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen
Posted on 09/25/2024 8:10:47 AM PDT by bitt
Secret Service agents failed to take charge of decision-making for security at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where former President Donald Trump was shot in July, a bipartisan Senate committee revealed in a new report Wednesday, leading to key lapses in preparation and communication that day.
The report, citing interviews with top Secret Service officials and local law enforcement who oversaw the security for the rally, said the failures were “foreseeable, preventable” and found that many of the problems identified by the committee “remain unaddressed” by the Secret Service.
Some of the problems highlighted include the Secret Service failing to set up visual barriers around the rally that may have blocked shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ view of Trump, the lack of a plan on how to secure the building the shooter took aim from and the general chaos of communication around the shooter’s movement leading up to the attempt on the former president’s life.
Homeland Security Committee Chairman Sen. Gary Peters told CNN Wednesday morning that his panel heard “a lot of finger-pointing” when they pressed Secret Service agents about who was in charge the day of the rally.
“That should be a very clear answer, and the problem is, there is no answer,” Peters, a Michigan Democrat, said on “CNN News Central.”
“That was astonishing to us. We could not find one point of contact who said, ‘This was the person in charge,’” he added.
Key resource requests were also denied, and some were not even made, the report says.
Secret Service advance agents did not request a surveillance team, which could have helped patrol the rally for approximately 15,000 attendees. First lady Jill Biden, meanwhile, had one assigned to her event roughly an hour away for approximately 410 individuals.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassination; butler; trump
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1 posted on 09/25/2024 8:10:47 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/25/2024 8:11:03 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
To: bitt
They weren’t ‘failures’, they were planned...............
3 posted on 09/25/2024 8:11:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: bitt
They keep pointing out that there were no officers on the roof where the shooter was. But there were officers in the window overlooking that roof… but they left their post. Weird.
4 posted on 09/25/2024 8:19:09 AM PDT by marron
To: Red Badger
Respectfully I read that all the time here but I’ve seen nothing to indicate this was anything more than incompetent leadership, poor planning, a lack of coordination, lousy staffing/training, laziness, and insufficient resources.
In other words, all the things any government agency is good at.
I do admit that just was we learned from Crossfire Hurricane and the rest, when said government agency is biased against a person as they are with Trump, it’s easy to justify most any decision, and those on the ground are always going to mimic the attitudes and biases of their bosses and higher-ups.
5 posted on 09/25/2024 8:21:02 AM PDT by bigbob
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