Trump assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains

The Conversation US ^ | 7-15-24 | The Staff

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As investigators analyze what led 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to assassinate former president Donald Trump – and how Crooks was able to fire at the former president at a heavily patrolled event on July 13, 2024, one thing is clear, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

“A direct line of sight like that to the former president should not occur,” Mayorkas told ABC news on July 15. That same day, President Joe Biden established an independent review of the shooting.

Amy Lieberman, a politics and society editor at The Conversation U.S., spoke with Javed Ali, a scholar of counter-terrorism at the University of Michigan and a former FBI and Department of Homeland Security official, to better understand the security failures that this shooting exposes, as well as how this attack may be part of a larger pattern.

[The_Media_never_lie]

So much b.s. in this article.

Why would anyone think the shooter did not have help?

This must be taken in context. Lawfare, imprisonment, revocation of SS protection: it is clear Democrats have been advocating suppression or even the murder of Trump with impunity.

The FBI is not qualified to investigate this.

[rxh4n1]

“So much b.s. in this article.”

This, right at the start. I’d say it wasn’t.
“at a heavily patrolled event”

[The_Media_never_lie]

I would think at some point they would get tired of lying about the “security lapse”.

[Zhang Fei]

[So much b.s. in this article.
Why would anyone think the shooter did not have help?

This must be taken in context. Lawfare, imprisonment, revocation of SS protection: it is clear Democrats have been advocating suppression or even the murder of Trump with impunity.

The FBI is not qualified to investigate this.]

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You don’t have to be a genius to mount an assassination attempt. Literal dictators have been killed by assassins over the centuries, despite serious security precautions, and in much more controlled security settings. The key elements necessary to pull it off are above average intelligence and a willingness to die, if necessary.

If you wanted to put Joe Biden in the ground, you could probably get really close. But it would be a one-way mission.

Rich Hanania has an essay on how in recent decades, political assassinations seem to have petered out. We can only hope that this attempt isn’t the start of a new and disturbing trend.

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-are-there-so-few-assassinations

[Zhang Fei]

Starting in 2009, the civil service has binged on incompetent hires. This disaster was over a decade in coming. Bill Shipley, former DOJ prosecutor and current J6 defense lawyer, on what has wrecked the FBI since Obama’s tenure:

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https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1808523900642640226
[Re the revelation this morning that an FBI Supervisor has come forward as a whistleblower to reveal that FBI management has been pushing out Agents deemed to have conservative — i.e., “Anti-Government” — political beliefs.
This is exactly in line what I have been saying here about the manner in which the FBI Agent work — and therefore management — turns over during a 25 year cycle.
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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It would be unsurprising if the Secret Service has undergone a similar purge, trading competence and relevant experience or knowledge for ideological compatibility. That may be at the root of its current dysfunction.

[cgbg]

“Mistakes were made” is the official cover story.

All who communicate it are protecting the guilty.

[wjcsux]

“It would be unsurprising if the Secret Service has undergone a similar purge, trading competence and relevant experience or knowledge for ideological compatibility. That may be at the root of its current dysfunction.”
It looks like the USSS traded in the strong, capable former military guys for fat lesbians.

[Liz]

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[rxh4n1]

“I would think at some point they would get tired of lying about the “security lapse”.”

Purposeful incompetence, like “The Producers”.

[Delta 21]

“They” handed him Trumps head on a platter. I would believe there was just a bit of buck fever in there. The kid missed hit target but the other two didn’t miss their’s.

[Fraxinus]

It would be unsurprising if the Secret Service has undergone a similar purge, trading competence and relevant experience or knowledge for ideological compatibility. That may be at the root of its current dysfunction.

I suspect that we can add some petty dick measuring, possibly coming from as high as the white house. Basically as part of the mid to upper level bureaucracy showing each other that they agree that Trump was never a legitimate president, his secret service detail was reduced to the minimum, and filled with the least experienced agents.