Posted on 08/01/2024 6:58:47 PM PDT by george76
A whistleblower alleged that Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe personally cut security resources and “retaliated” against agents with security concerns leading up to former President Donald Trump’s rally on July 13, according to a letter released Thursday.
The whistleblower alleged that Rowe personally implemented “significant cuts” to the Counter Surveillance Division (CSD), which does advanced threat assessments for venues, and alleged that agents who expressed security concerns were “retaliated against,” according to Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s letter to Rowe. As a result, the CSD failed to perform its “typical evaluation” of the rally venue in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and “was not present on the day” of the attempted assassination.
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“The whistleblower claims that if personnel from CSD had been present at the rally, the gunman would have been handcuffed in the parking lot after being spotted with a rangefinder,” the letter states.
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“Secret Service personnel expressed alarm that individuals were admitted to the event without vetting,” the letter says. “The whistleblower alleges that those who raised such concerns were retaliated against.”
At the July 13 rally, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire shots at the former president from a rooftop just 130 yards away from the stage. Crooks had reportedly been spotted by witnesses, flagged by Secret Service and even was identified by a local counter sniper over an hour and a half before Trump took the stage.
A whistleblower has alleged to my office that the Secret Service Counter Surveillance Division (CSD), the division that performs threat assessment of event sites before the event occurs, did not perform its typical evaluation of the Butler site and was not present on the day,” the letter states. “This is significant because CSD’s duties include evaluating potential security threats outside the security perimeter and mitigating those threats during the event.”
As a result of these security lapses, Crooks was able to take aim at and injure the former president, kill volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore and injure attendees James Copenhaver and David Dutch, who are both in stable condition
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Rowe testified on Tuesday before a joint hearing held by the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committee after U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on July 23 following her own evasive congressional testimony. Rowe’s testimony was similarly evasive as he left many lawmakers’ questions unanswered.
“You acknowledged in your Senate testimony that the American Glass Research complex should have been included in the security perimeter for the Butler event,” the letter says. “The whistleblower alleges that because CSD was not present in Butler, this manifest shortcoming was never properly flagged or mitigated.”
Despite this, Trump has vowed to continue holding outdoor rallies and said that the Secret Service will “substantially step up” their security detail going forward, according to a post on Truth Social from Saturday.
Rowe is a PATHETIC EXCUSE for a LEADER!! Just look at his HAIRCUT!! WEIRD AS HELL!!
In Watergate, “Deep Throat” was #2 at FBI. Same position in SS held by Rowe when this happened. Just coincidence, or design based on past success?
That little Son of a Bitch.
I knew HE WAS PART OF THE PROBLEM AND NOT THE SOLUTION.
I guess he thought he could get away with the corrupt Cris Wray method of LOOKING LIKE HE IS SO INNOCENT AND SAYING THE MOST RIDICULOUS THINGS.
Wray has PERFECTED IT. ROWE IS A NOVICE...HE HAS A LOT TO LEARN FROM THE “DIRECTOR OF THE FBI.”
[Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe]
Is he a Democrat?
A Booshie Republican?
So the shooter was likely informed it was “all clear”.....
“not planned in the classic sense. What was done was purposefully lax security combined with a DEI rejects being assigned to Trump.”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent enough time in the fever swamps of the blog world to know. All it would take is a single mention in the underground blogosphere of the loose security measures at these venues. That seed of information would quickly take root in that atmosphere of hate and malicious intent. Normally these people that read and participate in those conversations have sufficient impulse control to prevent them from acting on the stupid ideas these democrats post unfiltered from the sickness in their brains. But this kid obviously was not endowed with that kind of brain. That is not an accident.
When we live in a country where they have to have public service announcements to tell parents to dig around in their kids school backpack to find unused supplies because they can’t afford to buy pencils in this inflationary environment. Why would the parents not be paying attention to what’s inside the kids backpack in the first place? Nobody’s checking homework?
So in that unsupervised environment this kid is blogging around on his computer when some antifa handler gets hold of him and starts coaching. Oh your father has a weapon? Oh go to walmart get a rangefinder. Here’s how to use it. Yeah look at this photo, daddy gave you a drone. Here’s how to use it. Look up how to make a bomb with a remote control. Yeah put it in the car. You hate the guy right? You want to kill hitler right? He’s showing up in your town nearby. Show me how much.
Someone handled this kid. He did not plan this on his own. I wanna know who the handler is and what groups he is associated with so we can drill down to the bottom of this attempt. Root these people out and deprogram them.
Wow this just keeps getting worse and worse for the SS but it also shows more and more the hand of God in protecting Trump at the rally
[- Joe Biden’s sinister grin when he commented Trump was going to have a challenging week.]
yeah
Looking less a security screw up, more like a failed assassination .
The video I saw showed only 5 or 6 little pops like you would hear from an AR, and then a couple of louder shots from the counter snipers where he bites the bullet. Where did the extra casings come from? Did the Famous But Incompetent miscount when they dispoiled the crime scene?
IT LOOKS LIKE A SMALL BATHROOM RUG ON HIS HEAD.
HE IS WEIRD...BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY...HE IS DANGEROUS.
TAKE CARE...
Rowe is dangerous. All pensionors with a badge are dangerous.
I’m betting that we will never see footage of Crooks firing a shot.
If Trump doesn’t take responsibility for his security he hasn’t learned anything about his enemies. He needs to hire his own security team to watch over the secret service. I don’t know how he can continue to trust the secret service to protect his life after Butler. They will leave him vulnerable again and he won’t be so lucky next time.
Blow whistle -> Career over.
The Deep State protects itself.
How does this square with the other cell phone video of Crooks(allegedly) crawling across the roof while people are yelling that he has a gun?
Planned. Full stop. Likely with FBI involvement. There was an AD directly behind the target that filmed it.
She was wearing a Jesus hat too. No possible way any FBI management type is going to allow herself to be filmed in person at a Trump rally otherwise.
“Bolding and parenthesis mine. Notice that CBS says on July 11th that the site was unknown to the public but the NY Times says Crooks was on the site scoping it out on the 7th. And he started prep on the 6th, three days after the Trump campaign announced the rally.”
That’s not the way I read it. As early as July 3rd, the public was informed that the rally would be at the grounds of the Butler Farm Show. What they did not know until July 11th is the exact location on the grounds where Trump would set up.
And, less than a month after the attempted assassination of Trump, the Biden admin helps arrange a prisoner swap with Russia that involves returning an old FSB assassin who was convicted and being held by Germany for a killing that occurred not far from Merkel’s office in Berlin, back to Russia. The assassin had rode up to his target on a bicycle and killed him in broad daylight.
This article is dated July 4th. It clearly states that the rally will be held at the Butler Farm Show.
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