Posted on 09/25/2024 8:10:47 AM PDT by bitt
Secret Service agents failed to take charge of decision-making for security at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally where former President Donald Trump was shot in July, a bipartisan Senate committee revealed in a new report Wednesday, leading to key lapses in preparation and communication that day.
The report, citing interviews with top Secret Service officials and local law enforcement who oversaw the security for the rally, said the failures were “foreseeable, preventable” and found that many of the problems identified by the committee “remain unaddressed” by the Secret Service.
Some of the problems highlighted include the Secret Service failing to set up visual barriers around the rally that may have blocked shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ view of Trump, the lack of a plan on how to secure the building the shooter took aim from and the general chaos of communication around the shooter’s movement leading up to the attempt on the former president’s life.
Homeland Security Committee Chairman Sen. Gary Peters told CNN Wednesday morning that his panel heard “a lot of finger-pointing” when they pressed Secret Service agents about who was in charge the day of the rally.
“That should be a very clear answer, and the problem is, there is no answer,” Peters, a Michigan Democrat, said on “CNN News Central.”
“That was astonishing to us. We could not find one point of contact who said, ‘This was the person in charge,’” he added.
Key resource requests were also denied, and some were not even made, the report says.
Secret Service advance agents did not request a surveillance team, which could have helped patrol the rally for approximately 15,000 attendees. First lady Jill Biden, meanwhile, had one assigned to her event roughly an hour away for approximately 410 individuals.
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They weren’t ‘failures’, they were planned...............
They keep pointing out that there were no officers on the roof where the shooter was. But there were officers in the window overlooking that roof… but they left their post. Weird.
Respectfully I read that all the time here but I’ve seen nothing to indicate this was anything more than incompetent leadership, poor planning, a lack of coordination, lousy staffing/training, laziness, and insufficient resources.
In other words, all the things any government agency is good at.
I do admit that just was we learned from Crossfire Hurricane and the rest, when said government agency is biased against a person as they are with Trump, it’s easy to justify most any decision, and those on the ground are always going to mimic the attitudes and biases of their bosses and higher-ups.
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
Nobody can be punished if nobody was in charge. So when Rowe ways they are in the HR accountability phase, can we all agree that nothing will be held accountable except the policy manual - this is so predictable.
In the minds of the Biden Administration, the only failure in the assassination attempt was the fact that the shooter missed.
>>>... incompetent leadership, poor planning, a lack of coordination, lousy staffing/training, laziness, and insufficient resources....<<<
If you assign your worst officers and least reliable and poorly trained staff to a candidate, your result is practically guaranteed.................
There will be no accountability here. I hope Trump fires Rowe, he’s just as bad as the team at the event. Finger pointing and zero accountability.
In the world of these Statist (scatalogical plural noun redacted), they are features. They are only failures in their minds because they did not succeed in their mission
When Trump wins, the entire leadership of USSS needs to be fired. Barring firing, they should be assigned uniformed gate duty at the WH outer gates.
Butler, PA wasn’t just a colossal failure of incompetence, dereliction or whatever. Too many concatenated and convenient mishaps/lapses to be that.
I believe there is/was a cabal of top USSS personnel involved in facilitating an assassination of Trump. And, it hasn’t been stopped with the retirement of that stonewalling weasel Cheatle.
I agree.
“Homeland Security Committee Chairman Sen. Gary Peters told CNN Wednesday morning....”
What exactly does a “Homeland Security Committee Chairman” do ? Wouldn’t that person be responsible for “security” ?
Who at DHS is in charge of the SS ???
Is Sgt. Schultz the only person they questioned ?
Obviously.
Oh wow.
“We made a mistake....”
OK then, we need to know whose attitudes and biases were they mimicking .
Very coincidental that the dead guy was on the grounds with a gun, putting it together on a roof, that was being overseen by people who left their post(at the same time)
Also, that he knew the only and best place for his shooting
Nevermind that he somehow got on the roof unnoticed
Probably could have seen him quite well if someone had been stationed on the water tower which oversees everything.
Too many coincidences...
BTTT
So when we ask for names of those responsible, the answer is there are no names. There are a lot of ‘names’ like that in this administration.
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