Posted on 10/21/2024 5:43:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A preliminary report by the House Task Force on the attempted assassination attempt of Donald Trump provides new detail about the lack of coordination between the Secret Service and state and local law enforcement officers that contributed to Trump nearly being killed and the murder of rally-goer Corey Comperatore.
The report, released early Monday, also asserts that a local law enforcement officer said he fired at shooter Thomas Crooks before the Secret Service counter sniper fired the shot that killed him, and that this first shot may have caused Crooks to stop shooting.
But House Task Force investigators concluded that the order of the shots remains unclear. Crooks’ autopsy shows that only one bullet entered Crooks’ head and credits the Secret Service counter sniper for firing that shot, the report states.
Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries appointed the task force, headed by Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania and Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado, in late July. As part of its ongoing investigation, the panel interviewed 23 state and local law enforcement witnesses, received a series of Secret Service briefings, and obtained thousands of pages of documentation in response to federal, state, and local agencies.
Many of its findings are similar to those of the interim joint report by two Senate panels, which released their initial findings in late September, and a bipartisan Independent Review Board, which unveiled its findings and recommendations last week.
But a section on “fragmented lines of communication and unclear lines of communication and chains of command” provides new detail about the failures that led to no law enforcement officer engaging with Crooks until he was on a rooftop only 200 yards from Trump and the crowd. It also provides more information about why the threat Crooks posed was not communicated
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Was it all plausible deniability?
If only they’d done their jobs.
Basically the US Secret Service has chosen the Sargent Shultz’s defense.
Sorry, I just do not believe this at all. Crooks had been under FBI knowledge at points prior to the attempt. USSS is saying now that the FBI and USSS don’t/can’t talk to each other?
I think they’re all a bunch of colluding liars.
But no interviews/briefings with bystanders who were pointing out the guy on the roof?
I'm getting that "mistakes were made" feeling....
“Report: Secret Service Didn’t Know Crooks Was Armed Before He Opened Fire”
I don’t believe one word of that
BTTT
Well everyone at the rally knew.
So carrying a gun around a secure area is....
He was just sitting on a roof...
the video shows the snipers on roof behind Biden DUCK before taking their kill shot. I have no idea what this article is talking about.
Yes but the people on the ground weren’t standing on a 4 1/2 degree rooftop Pitch fighting for their lives at the time lol
Hey, give them a break. When they became reborn as a DEI organization it’s the best they can do.
Met President Ford in Omaha at his birth site location across from a park. That was in 1975 and you can still see where the SS cut branches to keep people from climbing up.
That long black thing he was lugging around could have been a crutch.
“Report: Secret Service Didn’t Know Crooks Was Armed Before He Opened Fire”
I don’t believe one word of that
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Many citizens knew that Crooks was on the roof with a gun. SS last to know?
The fabulous Secret Service not only didn’t know Crooks had arms but apparently they didn’t know Crooks had legs because they seemed to still be totally baffled by his movements at the rally.
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