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Report: Secret Service Didn’t Know Crooks Was Armed Before He Opened Fire
RealClearPolitics ^ | 21 Oct, 2024 | Susan Crabtree

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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To: MtnClimber

Rowe should update his resume, he’s fired.


21 posted on 10/21/2024 7:10:14 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber
But a section on “fragmented lines of communication and unclear lines of communication and chains of command”

That used to be just called a Cluster F***.

22 posted on 10/21/2024 7:48:55 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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7100 Secret Service Special agents and 2800 Task Force Officers, plus Uniformed Division officers, Technical Law Enforcement officers, and administrative, professional, and technical personnel are on the taxpayers’ govt payroll.

Complete with perks, privileges, eternal Cadillac, healthcare, bonuses, and pensions.

Roughly half of the Secret Service’s $3 billion budget is spent on “protective services.”

It also has a robust cybercrime division, state-of-the-art forensic labs and a threat-assessment center that studies “how to mitigate and train against threats.”


23 posted on 10/21/2024 8:03:01 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: MtnClimber

WE can find other Galaxies LIGHT YEARS FROM EARTH & we cannot see a gun just yards away???


24 posted on 10/21/2024 9:32:04 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles

I think they knew the gun was there, but they did not want to notify the counter snipers.


25 posted on 10/21/2024 9:36:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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FBI and USSS don’t/can’t talk to each other

I thought Jamie had left government after serving on the 911 committee.

26 posted on 10/22/2024 9:10:12 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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She’s still hanging around like a leech somewhere, IIRC. Jaime Gorelick as assist DOJ set up the wall between FBI and CIA which resulted in huge failures in the 9/11 detection.

She was vice chairman of Fannie Mae later and made MILLIONS in bonuses. While everyone else lost their shirts on those bad bundle mortgages sold off as ‘credit derivatives. She also was on the 9/11 aftermath committee....a very egregious F/U to the US if you ask me.


27 posted on 10/22/2024 12:18:00 PM PDT by Gaffer (She)
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