Posted on 08/06/2024 10:56:30 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
It has come to light that the Secret Service’s handling of urgent security information on the day of the attack on President Donald Trump was disastrously inadequate.
According to The Washington Post, crucial messages about the imminent threat posed by Crooks were not properly relayed to the Secret Service, leading to a deadly game of telephone tag that ultimately failed to prevent the attack.
On her show, Laura Ingraham highlighted the chaotic communication breakdowns that occurred in Butler, Pennsylvania. Local commanders were forced to use cell phones to call state troopers, who then relayed messages to the Secret Service, resulting in critical delays.
This ineffective chain of communication happened three times that fateful afternoon, including a crucial moment at 5:42 PM when a local counter-sniper radioed about a young white male lurking near the AGR building, only to lose sight of him shortly after…
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Plausible Deniablility
“Why did the SS not install their own portable, encrypted cellular service?”
Before an event, can’t they contract with Starlink to have some kind of dedicated encrypted comm connection among all LEO who will be involved?
Cellphone service in rural America is dreadful. Relying on it as your sole comms backbone for critical need is insanity.
I don’t live super rural more of an exurb and I can’t use either of my phones in 4 of 6 rooms you either have to go outside to the east side of the structures or turn on Wi-Fi calling to make an outbound call. Forget about an 4/5G VOLTE based inbound call it’s Wi-Fi or nothing. Starlink is the answer. A Starlink Mini has built in Wi-Fi and will put up a 200 meter wide Wi-Fi bubble anywhere on earth. We used to have Hughes Net grrrrrr never again. We have dishymcflatface gen 2 Starlink it’s light years ahead of Hughes Net. The mini is for mobile roaming it’s a $30 add-on and worth every penny. Basically Starlink Mini turns any place on earth into a Wi-Fi cellphone spot with a 1.5km MIMO high power Wi-Fi router you can cover more than a grid square with sat based coverage. Every major cell operator also sells and licences micro cell repeaters that link to either Wi-Fi or Ethernet and put up a 1 to 2 km wide bubble of 4/5G totally transparent to users phones it shows up as AT&T or T-Mobile coverage. The advanced team should have checked for signal and if lacking brought in a portable cell base station linked to sat comms via Starlink or Immarsat or Iridium or Globalsat they have dotgov money so who cares its 8 bucks per megabyte.
This then begs the question why didn’t the world’s best protective services agency have dedicated comms? At least a local Motorola repeater and hand out encrypted radios to every watch commander from every agency present so you have a backbone comms link between all agency’s present. Each agency can keep their officers on their own comms as long as a corporal or Sgt or special agent has that encrypted bridge link radio for the guys under his command. I’m not a conspiracy theory kinda guy but this is so gross of a failure as to be more than just negligence.
It’s very clear the deep state was looking to take Trump out. It’s civil war.
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That being the case they should NOT have been the system for LEO communication. Shortwave LE radio with dedicated comm towers, encrypted. Were these employed? Needs thorough investigation, not take the word of freaking Verizon/ATT whose mapping must be a joke.
The crowd was 15,000 the town 13k-—28K and how many phones in use- they have the data. Subpoena them.
Comms were NOT down, as witnessed by thousands of people using those comms.
Here’s a clip from FNC that says the countersnipers were using “text messaging without wi-fi”...which is to say, in a saturated cell those messages weren’t being sent promptly if at all.
Lots more whistleblower comments via Josh Hawley about the incompetent site agent (female) who dropped the ball on many fronts. This person is still on the job, still doing security for political events.
Agree on all points. When UHF TV went digital and was refarmed huge hunks of spectrum were opened up and dedicated exclusively to law enforcement and public safety. No excuse for them to be relying on commercial cellular comms, we spend enough money on crap but no one would object to the SS having the best most reliable comms on the planet. Disgusting!
If they don't have enough phones that get priority on the packet routing to distribute to key staff, then they need to bring the satellite phone link with them.
Guess they don't want to pay for Starlink since X Man Bad, like Orange Man Bad.
How come the Secret Service stopped with their daily press conference updates after one? And frankly the guy didn’t answer anything in the last one.
has he made his agents available to the senate for questioning like he promised? Where the heck is the follow up on this???
40,000+ people overloaded the two towers present. At&t has its Firstnet service that is specifically for first responders and LEO of any stripes. Firstnet gives priority realtime access to the network for any authorized user on dedicated frequency bands so normal users don’t overload it. Why SS and the local LEO were not using Firstnet is another question that needs to be answered. Iridium satphone also has a dedicated LEO and military priority service. Here again you only need a dozen or so phones hand them out to watch commanders. Then there is the military MOUS handheld comms that is priority ,encrypted and redundant with zero civilian access or interference. A couple of singars and the modems to each watch center would link them all tougher using military grade comms. Fail,fail and more fail.
Premeditated!
SS must surely have secure, reliable means of communications during operations. To ask us to believe otherwise (”We had bad cell coverage!”) is a bridge too far.
This is not the Secret Service’s first rodeo.
These are ridiculously routine issues that must have been addressed thousands of times before.
They are doing the old street scam—shell game—lying.
Agree, it was planned ... phone service down for 25 minutes prior to shooting ... c’mon give me a break. Who doesn’t see this as a setup?
Starlink would not be phones it would be a portable Mini dish set up linked to a Wi-Fi router. But with tens of thousands of phones all with Wi-Fi on and searching for signal it would easily have overloaded the Wi-Fi CDMA spectrum. The more phones the higher the noise floor until saturation even if the phones are not connected just searching for signals. You need dedicated spectrum. Which AT&T has so does Iridium and the UHF band of Milcomms all are dedicated to LEO, or warfighter. SS is certainly authorised to use national technical means if they ask for it. At the very least that should’ve brought in a UHF repeater on dedicated LEO freqs with a dozen encrypted dedicated radios then handed them out like Oprah any you get a radio and you get a radio...to every agency there. You know maybe at the group meeting beforehand to coordinate security...
Any FOIA of what NSA has in their Lidois Amazon cloud from ATT, Verison, Tmobile should be easily to sort given coms were down. Congress can so it one committee session.
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