Posted on 07/14/2024 11:16:44 AM PDT by Reno89519
President Biden just spoke about the assassination attempt, said many of the right words--full review, whatever security Trump needs, reassess security at Republican convention.
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I figured that was the case and the applicable ROE. But the guy is in a restricted/secured area, lying prone, aiming a rifle at the President and the officer is tracking him with a high power scope. Those four strikes justified blowing him to bits BEFORE he fired. Is there no common sense anywhere?
[Some other site had a poster saying the he was asking for authorization to shoot for 45 seconds.
Fog of war.. who know what is the truth]
Susan Crabtree on Secret Service policy. Some of this could be based on candidate fear of political blowback, if an innocent gets killed.
But a source within the Secret Service community tells RealClearPolitics that the agency rules of engagement in this situation are to wait until the president is fired upon to return fire.
“You want to take a shot then find out the guy was holding a telescope?” the source suggested. “The Secret Service is by nature reactive…and you better be right when you do react or you’re f-——d.”
The Secret Service protocol requires that a counter sniper aware of a potential shooter to radio directly to intelligence division team to respond and investigate. In this case, the investigation may have been cut short by the shooter firing his weapon, so the counter sniper then fired as quickly as possible in return.
The source praised the counter sniper who acquired the target and responded within three seconds, calling their performance “incredible.”
“The counter snipers are highly trained and extremely accurate,” he said.]
Yep.
Did they assassinate the assassin?
Don’t they always?
“Shouldn’t TRUMP be the one whose address to the nation gets covered?”
It most certainly will be covered.
That is 100% correct.
But, in this case, a stranger on a roof, with a rifle, withing shooting range of the president is pretty clear cut example of shoot now, question later.
The only possible justification I can think of is that they were frantically asking “Is he one of us???” until it was obvious he wasn’t
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