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Oversight Committee says Homeland Security is refusing to confirm a Secret Service briefing time
Just the News ^ | July 16, 2024 4:17pm | Steven Richards

Posted on 07/16/2024 5:01:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

House Republican members on the Oversight Committee said Tuesday the Department of Homeland Security has taken over communications between the committee and the U.S. Secret Service and refuses to confirm a time for a briefing that was supposed to take place today. 

The interposition by the Department of Homeland Security comes as Congress is seeking answers from the Secret Service about the security failure at Donald Trump's July 13 rally in Pennsylvania where an attempt was made on the former president's life. The USSS had previously agreed to brief the committee Tuesday. 

"After the Secret Service agreed to brief members of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security took over communications with the Committee and has since refused to confirm a briefing time. The Oversight Committee has a long record of bipartisan oversight of the Secret Service and the unprofessionalism we are witnessing from current DHS leadership is unacceptable," a spokeswoman for the Oversight Committee said in a statement shared with Just the News Tuesday.

"While the Secret Service confirmed Director Cheatle is expected to appear for the Committee’s hearing on July 22, to head off any attempt by DHS to backtrack on her appearance, the Chairman will issue a subpoena for her to attend. Director Cheatle must answer to Congress and the American people about the historic failure that occurred on her watch," she added. 

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; cheatle; coup; dhs; houseoversight; insidejob; jillsfault; kimberly; kimberlycheatle; obamasfault; r; secretservice
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To: Bullish

Amen to that.


61 posted on 07/16/2024 5:52:42 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: RummyChick

now, now, now...she was assigned to saving the shoes!: /s

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/29268402/behind-the-scenes-rally-trump-shoes-demand/


62 posted on 07/16/2024 5:56:37 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: healy61

It seems to me like it’s 14 ways to Sunday now.


63 posted on 07/16/2024 5:57:00 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: butterdezillion
I hope that these people who saw Trump’s defiance at the attempt to kill him - and saw how God protected him! - will take heart and tell the truth.

They won't.

64 posted on 07/16/2024 6:04:11 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Liz

Trump should have been taken off the stage the second they knew of any threat from any rooftop. Then neutralize the threat before the rally could continue. It’s secret service 101 to at the very least do that. That they didn’t do so is beyond ludicrous and she thinks she should still keep her job? Obviously they wanted him to take a bullet or two to the head.

This whole thing is so ridiculous it’s making my brain hurt. But then it’s deep state democrats that always make my brain hurt anyway. We’re living in a deep state democrat coup that’s been ongoing since the steal of 2020. Now they’re trying to kill our candidate because they can’t beat him.


65 posted on 07/16/2024 6:06:55 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Send them a stern letter. That will catch their attention.


66 posted on 07/16/2024 6:08:27 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: jimtorr
Does this move by DHS say anything about possible attempts to play with Trumps safety?

Considering the fact that SS is part of DOJ, not DHS, this is a puzzling article to say the least.

John Solomon is usually far more buttoned down.

67 posted on 07/16/2024 6:13:22 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: Bullish

Old Roosterhead is a POS.


68 posted on 07/16/2024 6:15:29 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Bullish

Great deconstruction

<><>It’s elemental S/S 101, at the very least, to remove Trump from possible harm.
<><>That they didn’t do so is beyond ludicrous.
<><>Cheatle thinks she should still keep her job?
<><>she dictated she would not endanger agents on a “sloped roof”
<><>but ok’ed Trump getting a bullet or two to the head.


69 posted on 07/16/2024 6:17:15 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: cgbg

LOL


70 posted on 07/16/2024 6:26:21 PM PDT by Revel
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
much has been said about the SS only having "2 minutes" notice, BUT in all honesty they had 26 minutes advance notice of something suspicous, shooter pacing at magnatron, shooter using rangefinder, weapon materializing, and could have delayed Trump being on stage at all until the suspicious person was found.

however, the bigger question that needs to be asked, regardless of '2 minutes' or '26 minutes' is.,,,
Why was Trump held upright and immobile for 1.5 minutes after a head shot - protecting his torso but leaving his head and face exposed for most of that time? Why didn't the SS turn Trump into a moving target, keeping him down and dragging him or overboarding him if necessary to mitigate risk of a possible accomplice? Were the agents That confident there was only one shooter??? Why did an agent break away to throw his shoe off the stage? enquiring minds want to know

71 posted on 07/16/2024 6:28:46 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It is a coverup.

It is becoming obvious that, at a minimum, the Regime allowed the shooting, and at worst, they participated in the assassination attempt.


72 posted on 07/16/2024 6:30:30 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Revel

I would subpoena people who saw and recorded the shooter, those who contacted authorities and then local police. I would get what they were told to do by the secret service. I would find out who they reported the shooter to. Ask what they were told to do. Subpoena any body cam footage. Then start subpoenaing the secret service agents who were there and the ones who were given the day off. Build the case from the ground up. Then subpoena higher ups, culminating with Cheatle.


73 posted on 07/16/2024 6:36:20 PM PDT by Betty Jane
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To: Revel

Hold on a minute. None of the agents were using steroids, so there is nothing to investigate.


74 posted on 07/16/2024 7:08:28 PM PDT by ClarityGuy
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To: RummyChick

That’s brilliant


75 posted on 07/16/2024 7:11:02 PM PDT by Track9 (If you want to know about human nature, read a power tool user manual. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

We could save a lot of time and effort if we just locked up every senior official of these federal agencies and then investigated to determine if any of them were innocent and could therefore be released. I suspect the guard at the exit gate to that prison would be as bored as the Maytag repairman.


76 posted on 07/16/2024 7:21:10 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: noiseman

I like that idea.


77 posted on 07/16/2024 7:24:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: End Times Sentinel

“Considering the fact that SS is part of DOJ, not DHS, this is a puzzling article to say the least.”
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Solomon is correct. USSS used to be part of Treasury; however, was moved to DHS in 2003.

https://www.secretservice.gov/about/history/timeline


78 posted on 07/16/2024 7:27:08 PM PDT by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: hole_n_one
I expect her answers to many of the questions will be the same ol’ “As this is an ongoing investigation, I can not comment at this time”

And if she tries that, hold her in contempt of Congress and jail her until she gets her mind right. That “ongoing investigation” nonsense doesn’t wash. It’s only policy, not law. Time to stop letting them get away with using it as a shield against accountability.

79 posted on 07/16/2024 7:31:43 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: End Times Sentinel

No, the USSC has been part of DHS since 2003. Before that, it was part of Treasury Dept. It had been Treasury because it’s primary function was protecting the currency and the national financial networks, before VIP protection was added in 1902 after the assination of President McKinley.


80 posted on 07/16/2024 7:35:02 PM PDT by jimtorr
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