I wrote this elsewhere.
There are a LOT of facts and unanswered element in the assassination attempt that are…well…curious.
Many people have jumped to a Particular Conclusion based chiefly on the profound Secret Service failures. That is, there is no way this guy could have gotten off rounds that close unless he had…erm…”help.”
Or, there is this alternative explanation, the the A-team was elsewhere. Maybe.
It’s easy to understand these comforting responses.
However, consider the alternative, less jazzy but more realistic explanation:
The Secret Service is NOT some “elite” governmental organization. They are, bluntly, no better or worse than your local Department of Motor Vehicles, or the Post Office, or the TSA workers who lose your luggage.
Ther very fact that the Director is not self-immolating, is evidence of the rot in government.
The DMV issues drivers licenses to all sorts of terrible drivers. Why should anyone be surprised that their cousins, the incompetent Secret Service, did everything except stop a 20-year old loner from grazing Trump’s ear?
This is the government. Not the private sector.
It does seem very “curious”.
FOX reported late last night the Secret Service had no drones up, but the shooter did. No idea if true or not...
Without firm and universal standards it might be that the individuals are mostly as good as what they brought with them when they were hired.
Some agents, mostly men, are of the right type and interested in the training enough to become at least fairly good, the females less so, and some specialties like the snipers might be really good because they came in with sniper backgrounds and sniping is a personal interest with them that they work on.
Just as we saw in the military, the mediocre are already in and they will reach seniority and gain rank and leadership positions and create more of the rot that got them hired in the first place, with appointment of the Pepsi director someone decided to accelerate the process of rot.