Posted on 10/31/2024 10:45:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Secret Service leaders meddled in an independent government investigation of the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and are still not following many basic agency security protocols for presidential candidates, presidents, and vice presidents in the final days before the election, according to emails reviewed by RealClearPolitics and several sources in the Secret Service community.
As Secret Service failures came to light in the weeks after the July assassination attempt, USSS managers sent emails to employees asking them to alert them to any “direct requests for information or interview” from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, or DHS OIG. The internal government watchdog is conducting its probe of the failures that led to the near assassination of Trump, the killing of fireman Corey Comperatore, and the wounding of two other rally-goers at the western Pennsylvania campaign event.
The emails, which RealClearPolitics reviewed, contained the subject line “DHS OIG Inquiries” and directed employees to tell their supervisors if an OIG official reaches out to them so Secret Service managers could coordinate “an organized response.” Supervisors sent the email five days after the same inspector general issued a negative report on the Secret Service’s actions before and on Jan. 6, criticizing the agency for failing to detect a pipe bomb near Vice President Kamala Harris and not flagging signs of potential violence to other agencies.
Normally, responding to DHS OIG investigators without talking to superiors would not warrant coordination with supervisors, the email stated. But after the first assassination attempt against Trump, USSS leadership needed to provide the proper context and a coordinated response.
“Generally, not an issue; however, this is NOT the normal course of action, and the Service needs awareness and to ensure an organized response with information in the correct context
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That is because the Delta Bravo who was the assistant director making all the decisions got PROMOTED when the other Delta Bravo was allowed to resign instead of being fired.
Of COURSE they are going to interfere. That is the definition of the Deep State right there.
Shapeless. Formless. No accountability. Protects its own.
“Shapeless. Formless. No accountability. Protects its own.”
Sounds like The Blob meets The Pod People. (Don’t close your eyes).
FIRE Acting Director Rowe
Sounds like interference with an official investigation to me.
Look at their wording - near assassination and wounding of two others sounds pretty mild. It was an assassination attempt and wounding of Trump and two others.
If the Sloppy Service was investigating multiple people in a crime who wanted to “get their stories straight” you can bet the SS would be pushing for obstruction of justice charges too.
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, expense accounts, charge cards, 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.”
Doesn’t law enforcement separate people they are questioning so they cannot collude on a “story”.
I pray that Trump is elected and cleans house on the Secret Service, FBI and DOJ. January 21st Washington DC should be sea of pink slips
Update your resumes boys. You’re Fired!
The Secret Service needs disbanned and rebuilt.
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