They knew from early on that there was a guy there who had the thingamajigger that tells you how far away a target is. They let him in because he didn’t have a gun then but they flagged him as suspicious. So from the very beginning they knew they should keep an eye on this guy. He was in and out and they saw him various times but by the time he was on the roof the counter-sniper guys on the roof behind Trump had their sights on him for at least 50 seconds. Apparently the counter-sniper on the water tower did also, if that was the guy who killed the shooter as Erik Prince claims.
By whatever means, those counter-snipers knew exactly where he was and that he was armed and dangerous. Various reports have said that they requested permission (from Command and Control? Or who?) to take out the threat and were refused. Why did Command and Control not have the agents with Trump get him out of there fast? If their communications were working enough for the counter-snipers to have quick dialog then why weren’t the agents with Trump notified quickly?
There absolutely should have been somebody defending that rooftop. But even without it they had counter-snipers in two different locations that should have been able to see the shooter and indeed had their sights on him for some time. It seems like even with all the failures in security planning they still had what they needed in order to stop this guy before he shot at Trump but for some reason they didn’t take him out until after he shot at Trump.
And they wouldn’t even had had to take out the shooter right away if they had just kept Trump out of view until whenever they DID neutralize the shooter. All that would have taken was basic communication that there was an active shooter. But they didn’t even do that!
Why not? That’s what I want to know.
I’ve already given a likely construction or sequence of events given what we know up to this point.
Like a lightning strike, many ‘leaders’ are initially formed but usually only one return stroke develops; conjecture now is the formation of many leaders, but we don’t the ‘why’ that main stroke formed the way it did, like what policy was or was not followed, like who did or did not approve where personnel should have been positioned (like on a roof) and so forth.