Posted on 08/01/2024 5:48:28 AM PDT by McGruff
Senators are now accusing the Secret Service of trying to make local law enforcement into "a scapegoat" for the Trump rally shooting after its acting director testified this week about why gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks wasn’t spotted in advance in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Ronald Rowe, during his Capitol Hill testimony on Tuesday, appeared to blame local police for not seeing Crooks on top of the building from which he ultimately fired from. However, on Wednesday, the district attorney of Butler County disputed Rowe’s account and told Fox News that local snipers were not responsible for monitoring that rooftop.
"I think they’re looking for a scapegoat," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Washington Times following Rowe’s testimony.
"This has a lot of CYA [cover your a--] feel to it," added Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
At least they haven’t figured out a way yet to blame Trump himself.
Woke, incompetent, protected. That defines our government, and businesses like Boeing and GM that have heavy government ties.
Something is very wrong with the SS. Fox news showed a vid taken by one of the wounded men at the rally and it showed Crooks walking around the roof carrying what looked like a rifle he used. This went on for a long time. There were also vids of many Patrolmen and police looking at the roof and people yelling that he had a gun and nothing was done.
More and more it seems to me the Deep State didn’t plan this but became aware of Crooks plan a couple of hours before he opened fire and then just let his plan play out,
Up until that latest video I was defending the body men on the stage. But now I wonder exactly what they were looking at to miss the guy on the roof. Trained agents like that should have picked up the movement in their peripheral vision.
Then if you want to go up....But then again....maybe that interruption was enough to rattle him...Hard to say what was/is the right move...
It looks like this was a matter of communications...
Acting S/S Director Rowe, Jr. told Congress “he doesn’t want to
suspend anyone” until the neverending internal investigation concludes.
Translation from government-ese: There’s so much to cover-up, the guy needs time to bury it all.
Accuse? I think they are merely pointing out the overt facts in the situation as expressed by Rowe et al.
Biden should’ve fired the head of the USSS by noon of the day following the assassination attempt along with the field agent in charge of that event. Of course, Biden doesn’t know when his diaper needs to be changed ...
The DEI “director” resigned after a disgraceful appearance before Congress, but the field agent is still there to the best of my knowledge.
“From which he ultimately fired from,” compared to, “From which he ultimately fired>” See, Greg, you can end a sentence without a preposition. Man, I must be cranky this morning.
Saw that coming
It seems that these people have no concept of command structure. In a command structure a superior can delegate authority to a subordinate but can’t delegate responsibility. If the SS delegated authority to secure that roof top to local law enforcement and local law enforcement failed the responsibility for that failure falls squarely on the SS.
‘He stepped in front of the bullet therefore it’s not an assassination attempt. Trumps fault completely.’
See in the land of the loonie left anything can be truth and it’s always trumps fault.
My sympathy for local coppers is nonexistent. They were in the building when the murderer was crawling on the roof. Folks outside were yelling to them about the murderer. Until they provide evidence to the contrary they are no better than the cowards in Uvalde.
So, speak up! Who told you to stand down? Lacking that, go F@#$% yourselves!
30 years ago I was near Concord, MA and stopped at a gift shop to ask directions. I said “where does that road go to” and he said you must be from the midwest and I said yes.
He said you people always end your sentences in a preposition.
They did. Didn’t even try to hide it.
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