Clown ops. Connect the dots.
Not just female agents. The whole shebang. Starting in 2009, the civil service has binged on incompetent hires. This disaster was over a decade im coming. Bill Shipley, former DOJ prosecutor and current J6 defense lawyer, on what has wrecked the FBI since Obama’s tenure:
Many of the Agents that have advanced into upper levels of management now were hired during the first Obama Administration.
The Bureau made a very obvious and impactful decision in its recruiting priorities. No longer were former military or state/local law enforcement agents the “preferred” candidates. The priority became reshaping the workforce to “look like society as a whole.”
College campuses were the recruiting grounds. Professional degrees in accounting, law, engineering were no longer valued above soft social science degrees.
Prior law enforcement or military experience in leadership was now an hindrance to FBI training for a new century.
What the whistleblower is reporting is the natural evolution of that. Those moving into upper management learned in college that conservatism is not a legitimate political viewpoint. It cannot be given equal space in society to liberal/progressive outlooks on societal problems.
So conservatives in the ranks of the FBI must be made to leave.]
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They assigned the biggest libtard losers to Trump so he would be hit
in addition to the useless female agents I saw at least one obese man agent
What we see in the video is that even for this civilian job narrow margins count, every man that is replaced with a women reduces the overall height, speed, and muscle of the team.
There are also mental and emotional differences of a male protection force versus a heavily female and female led organization and the long term effect on the organization as it becomes more feminized and slowly morphs over years and decades not just in the sex of the people but in the hormones and characteristics of their sex that they bring to the institution and culture and focus of it, we have just seen that the small differences show up even in this few minutes of intense activity, and they could have made the difference in life and death.
I’d also suggest the agents be armed with the newest “smart” weaponry that won’t fire unless it is held just properly by the person coded to operate it.
i remember Tim Carver diving in front of Reagan to take a bullet
Sean Parnell was there Saturday sitting not far behind Trump. He spoke to the crowd earlier.
In this video with Megyn Kelly, he describes something he saw above the podium that day that had a profound affect on him.
Wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHSx2AXrw-s
I understand being in the heat of the moment, but the cop should have told Crooks that if he shot at him, the sound of the shot would have ruined his chances of shooting at the President, so he might as well just give up now and come down with him.
-PJ
The author deviates from his Reagan comment "split second" to "by the book" for DJT.
Curious. IMHO the response was 'slow', and I still have questions about that woman behind him holding the sign...
The DEI issue is valid but also a red herring right now.
Three SS snipers had the shooter in their sights for at least a minute before he shot at Trump. They were reportedly denied permission to take out that known, direct and imminent threat to Trump.
Whoever denied permission should be arrested for attempted murder and manslaughter.
This was an inside job. No two ways about it.
Repubs want Cheatle out for this? Start digging up dirt on her. She’s an idiot and they just need to prove it more.
Instead we get dachshunds forming a scrum around a giraffe.
Not from what I saw. Trump grabs his ear and ducks down, all BEFORE a single agent showed up. It was long enough that I yelled at my husband, where's the SS?!?!? Then they stumbled and bumbled their way to standing and awkwardly got him off the stage. Honestly, he could've done a better job without them. That's my opinion.
The initial response was by the book. Brave agents piled on him to protect him from further bullets. They kept him down until they were told the shooter had been killed.But they had no idea if others shooters were involved and, as they escorted him off the podium, they left him badly exposed, partly because some of the agents were not tall enough to give him proper cover.
If there had been a second shooter they would have had a clear line of sight as Trump fist-pumped the air.
There was even more chaos by the time they reached Trump's SUV. Far from the efficient, speedy exit all those years ago outside the Washington Hilton, it took too long to get him in the vehicle and even longer for it to depart.
Agents were darting about, some running in circles, clearly not sure what to do. One, overweight and looking panicked, pointed her gun all over the place. Another had trouble holstering her pistol. A third found time to put on her sunglasses and straighten her jacket.
Perhaps it was just a coincidence - but when Trump entered the Republican National Convention hall in Milwaukee on Monday night, his security detail was made up almost exclusively of tall, chunky men.
The Secret Service endlessly game-plans and practices evacuations. 'Get him and go' is the simple guidance. The Secret Service likes to regard itself as the global gold standard for the protection of public figures. Not after Saturday night.
But what happened after Trump was shot is the least of its problems.
How the shooter ever managed to get any shots off in the first place has the makings of the biggest crisis of modern times for the Secret Service.
Security experts are still baffled that a roof top overlooking the presidential podium, just over a football-field away and with an elevated, unobstructed view of Trump, could have been left unguarded so that the shooter could make it on to the roof and then, unhindered, position himself for his assassination attempt.
The Secret Service has yet to offer a credible explanation for this. Instead its director, Kimberly Cheatle, incredibly appeared to tell ACB News on Tuesday that health and safety protocol was to blame.
'That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,' she said.
Snipers on a sloped roof.Cheatle and her acolytes have also been busy throwing local law enforcement under the bus.
The warehouse on top of which the shooter clambered (we still don't know exactly how) was outside the Secret Service's perimeter of responsibility, she claims. It was the job of local police to secure it - and it's true that local law enforcement has some questions to answer.
It's been revealed that a local police counter-sniper team was stationed inside the warehouse. They were using it as a 'watch post' to scan for threats.
Pity nobody thought of having a look at the roof of the building they were occupying since its location and view overlooking the rally made it the most obvious threat. Perhaps the Keystone Cops were on duty at the weekend.
Local police also failed to react to people on the ground around the warehouse shouting that there was somebody, possibly with a rifle, on the roof, a few minutes before he started firing. Several videos provide convincing evidence to confirm this - and of the police's lackadaisical response.
'Look, they're all pointing,' one man is heard saying as he pans his smart phone from the stage to the roof of the warehouse, where a figure is seen crawling. 'Yeah someone's on top of the roof - look!'
The police don't seem to react, though there are reports that one local cop climbed a ladder leaning against the warehouse wall (used by the shooter?). He saw the would-be assassin when his head reached roof level - and quickly ducked back down the ladder when the shooter trained his AR-15 on him, before he then turned back unimpeded to take his shots at Trump.
Another report extraordinarily claims that local police noticed the shooter on the roof 26 minutes before he opened fire, and even took a picture of him.
Clearly, the police incompetence on depressing display during the Uvalde school massacre shooting in Texas two years ago was not a one-off.
But the Secret Service cannot be allowed to pile the blame on a police force in rural Pennsylvania with no expertise or experience in protecting high-profile targets.
It is the job of the Secret Service to devise and give final approval for the security blueprint covering events like Saturday's rally. It is the responsibility of the Secret Service to ensure all vulnerable points are covered, inside and outside their specific perimeter, even when local police provide the manpower.
Agents were darting about, some running in circles, clearly not sure what to do. One, overweight and looking panicked, pointed her gun all over the place. Another had trouble holstering her pistol. A third found time to put on her sunglasses and straighten her jacket.
The standards and governance of the Secret Service are clearly less rigorous than they once were. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump at the weekend has made that painfully obvious for all to see.
Above all, it was incumbent on the Secret Service to ensure that such an obvious security weakness as the warehouse was properly policed. One drone with infrared sensors would quickly have spotted the shooter, probably before he even made it to the roof. If that drone had been equipped with offensive capabilities, the shooter could have been taken out long before he ever managed to pull his trigger.
But we understand no drones were deployed. Why not?
It would seem the Secret Service under Director Cheatle has had other priorities. A former Secret Service agent told me privately that she quit because field agents were understaffed (working 60 consecutive days with no time off).
Money has instead been diverted to DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion). Investment in new technology, including state-of-the-art drones, was also sacrificed at the altar of DEI.
Director Cheatle was appointed two years ago by President Biden with the blessing (perhaps even active support) of his wife Jill.
Cheatle had been on the Biden family's security detail when Joe Biden was Vice President. Jill Biden is obsessed with DEI, like most leftwing pseudo-academics. Cheatle talks more about reaching 30 percent female agents by 2030 than she does about protecting those under her agency's tender care. Her ambition is all over the Secret Service website.
When I was a White House correspondent in the 1980s, the Secret Service was part of the US Treasury Department, a hard taskmaster.
Now it is part of Homeland Security, whose boss, the hapless Alejandro Mayorkas, is also 'passionate' about DEI. He also assures us the Southern border with Mexico is secure.
No doubt its shortcomings will be revealed in agonizing detail by the numerous congressional committees about to investigate it. I'd be surprised if Cheatle survives the scrutiny.
She could always return to be head of 'global security' at PepsiCo, from whence she came. They're big on DEI there too - but the consequences are less profound for American democracy.
The one female agent on the podium, not as tall as his shoulder. Center mass on him was right through her head.
You want some large tall torso in a ballistic vest interposed.
Trump’s suit and shirt same color as SS suit and shirt. Hides him in the scrum.
Now imagine Pelosi or other woman in a bright power suit or floral dress. As women rise high they may need to dress quiet. KH is a fairly quiet dresser, neutrals.