Posted on 07/16/2024 11:10:58 AM PDT by Starman417
Kimberly Cheatle is the Director of the Secret Service. She was appointed to that position by President Joe Biden in 2022.
Prior to becoming the Secret Service director, Cheatle worked for PepsiCo as the senior director in Global Security, according to her biography with the Secret Service. There, Cheatle oversaw and directed security protocols for the company's facilities in North America.She is part of Biden's push for more women in positions of power in government and she in turn, has been primarily focused on diversity over talent:
In an effort to diversify the agency, Cheatle aims to have 30% female recruits by 2030. Part of that effort has included allowing YouTube influencer Michelle Khare to train with agents.The failed assassination us ultimately her responsibility. The other day Elon Musk quipped:"I'm very conscious as I sit in this chair now, of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in our workforce, and particularly women," Cheatle said.
The decisions about resources to commit to an event are decided at the SS headquarters in DC.
Staffing decisions would have been made at Secret Service headquarters in Washington, based on whatever agency personnel on the ground recommended after a several-day investigation of the site, Pickle said.
"An advance team actually does a lengthy survey, where they look at everything and then recommend what they need," he said.
"But if they're stretched for resources, headquarters can say we can only get you one team out there. And that's not unusual — if you don't have it, you don't have it," Pickle said.
"It always boils down to resources," he said. "And if it's not a resource problem, and the money was there, then it's still an allocation of resources problem," he said — meaning someone underestimated the manpower needed to keep Trump safe.
Regardless of how many snipers were present, the Secret Service would typically have "360-degree coverage" of an event where a sitting or former president is speaking, Cangelosi said.
Obviously, they did not. This was a case of gross negligence. And there's a lot more.
Crooks was a white rooftop below the line of sight of the two sniper teams guarding Trump, and both seemed to have the weapons trained in his direction.
The big is one is that, inexplicably, the Secret Service outsourced securing the few neighboring buildings to Mayberry RFD
BUTLER, Pa. — The Secret Service blamed local police for failing to secure the rooftop from which gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, insisting it was outside the perimeter the federal agency was tasked with protecting.Instead, securing and patrolling the factory grounds of AGR International Inc. — located about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking Saturday — was the responsibility of local Pennsylvania police, Secret Service representative Anthony Gugliemi said, according to the New York Times.
The Secret Service was only tasked with covering the grounds where Trump’s rally took place, with local police being recruited to assist with those efforts and secure the area outside the rally.
Love to know who made that decision. We could guess.
The local counter sniper team was in the building which Thomas Crooks climbed up upon. How Crooks got access to the roof is yet a mystery.
Crooks was spotted on the roof twice 30 minutes prior to the shooting. The local sniper teams saw Crooks three times before the shooting.
The local cops had their own Uvalde moment.A team of police snipers team saw Thomas Crooks scouting their command post three times in the minutes before he climbed on top of it and shot Donald Trump from just inches above their heads, it has emerged.
Three police marksmen from Beaver County were using the single-story AGR International building as their watch-post when the would-be assassin chose it as his place to shoot from, CBS reported.
And he may have been in place on the roof for up to 30 minutes before he unleashed his volley of shots that killed one man and nearly took the life of the 45th president on Saturday evening.
The local Pennsylvania sheriff defended the armed officer who encountered former President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks on the rooftop moments before the shooting — claiming it was the right call to retreat after the gunman pointed the weapon at him.It was the JOB to follow up on this. The cop should have drawn his weapon if it was not already drawn and if nothing else opened fire with only his exposed but I'll let Curt weigh in on that one.Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe confirmed Monday that a local officer made contact with Crooks after being hoisted up to the roof by another officer — but fled when the sniper pointed his AR-style assault rifle at the officer.
“I would have done the same thing, absolutely,” Slupe told KDKA.
There is at least one witness who claims he warned the Secret Service about the shooter
Which begs the question "Why didn't they take him out right then and there?"A witness to the assassination revealed he warned Secret Service agents about a man with a rifle on a nearby roof minutes before they opened fire.
The witness, named Greg Smith, told DailyMail.com that he saw the suspected gunman climb into a rooftop outside the event, and was bewildered by the lack of action from agents.
Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics reported this:
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It seems DEI is good cover for a lot of deep-state plotting and shenanigans
Cheeto is not incompetent.
She’s dirty.
Nothing says “world class executive asset protection excellence” like a background guarding soda cans.
LOL...”Holster Puzzle”
That she hasn’t been fired might be a sign she knows too much, and higher-ups think she might spill the beans if she’s canned.
If this situation had been duplicated in ANY other Administration, I think she’d already be out the door as a face-saving move.
Maybe that was the purpose
Before joining PepsiCo, she served with distinction for 27 years in the U.S. Secret Service, most recently as Assistant Director of the Office of Protective Operations. In this position, Ms. Cheatle managed a $133.5M budget and collaborated with ten operational divisions and the Technical Security Division to research, develop and deploy technologies that reduce risks to protectees, protected facilities, and protected events."We" need to quit sneering at her for the Pepsico job; quit ignoring this.
Either the SS kept her on and regularly promoted her for 27 years (that means she was hired during the Clinton regime) despite being incompetent ...
Or
She's competent ... and the attempted assassination of Mr. Trump was deliberate and she was complicit.
DEI is not as great a danger as the assassination plot she enable, seems at the plan of FJB Junta.
It is obvious.
She’s incompetent, otherwise Trump would be dead.
Nice costume kit. Is it available in size Tall? Or only Midget?
Cheatle is quoted elsewhere as saying the roof in question was sloped and presented a fall risk for Secret Service agents - and that is why it was not secured by agents.
She should be dismissed for repeating what her handlers told her to say. She is not qualified to hold her position with the SS.
If there is a charitable explanation: the roof was not secured by SS agents because the baking sun made it uncomfortably hot so the team said not to fiddle with it because it was unlikely anyone at a Trump rally would act out.
Mark Styne mentioned the “Keystone Chorus Line” in one of his articles.
There’s multiple government staff who deserve the death penalty, preferably by firing squad.
This was a cluster fail scene, on every level. These officers are first cousins of the Uvalde event.
Their dei gunman is the only reason he’s still alive.
The pitch of the roof the government sharp shooters was on looks steeper than the roof the murderer was on.
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