I just don’t buy this “comms were down” story. There was plenty of time to walk to the stage and inform the SS agents there was an active threat. Radios don’t work in 100 yards range? Just not believable. Mirror to flash agents by sunlight would have worked. Time for smoke signals, sure. Anyone in the SS ever heard of a “radio check”?
The reports were are getting are so much b.s. Someone needs to be prosecuted for criminal malfeasance. A man was murdered because of this stupidity, and the FBI is creating another Trump hoax? The SS is stonewalling!
In addition the Secret Service has had thousands of details over the years.
They must have experienced almost every problem, including communication problems—that could be imagined.
The notion that there were not workarounds is absurd on its face.
Some reports are the SS snipers were using commercial text messaging, which understandably could be slow or down when you put this many devices in a small town without the infrastructure to support them.
But why? Post 9-11 there was a major push to get state and local public services comms to be “interoperable”. Many millions have been spent to do so - whether it works or not.
Now we’re told the most elite protective force in the country can’t friggin’ talk over 100 yards? A pair of $20 FRS radios will do that FFS!
Maybe we will get answers a few years down the road, when the Comperatore family brings a civil suit, like the Goldmans after the OJ trial.
I expect nothing from the Congress.
Correct, they bring their own mini cell tower comms with them. Think mobile can with cell imulator or several providing a mini net for comms on site.