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.
The hesitancy of whistleblowers in this situation really confuses me. In many situations “whistleblowers“ come off as just disgruntled employees. In this case they would be establishing the mindset, incompetence, and biases of this federal agency. Hard to see how they could be retaliated against.
Getting better-and stupid too.
What are FReepers thoughts as to whether this was a planned and intentional assassination (attempt). If so, what people and what agencies were in on it? Does it go clear to Biden? Or is the root based in some lower-level TDS federal employees? Was Crooks “radicalized” by some government people? Or was he just lucky that it was convenient for him to have perfect access?
You are confused by their hesitancy? LOL
I’m surpised that you don’t seem to understand what happens to whistleblowers. They get discredited, destroyed and sometimes killed. Do you think our government is going to thank you and treat you well? Not likely.
Murder and attempted assassination through intentional omission of duties. It’s the corrupt LEO’s way to accomplish a desired result by later claiming oversight or mistake.
Not surprising. The man seems to have some serious anger issues.
Because the whole point was that trump was supposed to die that day they e worked so hard to off him and they failed you can bet they will try again
Rowe has totally contracted Long TDS.
He needs to go to Gitmo’.
That’s an accessory to attempted murder charge…
Tony Shaffer does a good job placing blame for the hit squarely on Rowe and others in the Secret Service. Well worth the five minute listen at the beginning of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/live/1AQkbmmLLkE?si=wBCFtLd-nd0p09jr
When Cheatle resigned, all the information about Crooks' shootings went with her. It is a coverup as well as a circling of the wagons so that the real truth is hidden.
It's my theory that the S.S. knew about Crooks, found out about his purpose (i.e. finding the rangefinder in his backpack) for being at Butler Farm Show grounds and cleared the way to let it happen even when people were screaming about Crooks being on the roof. I think these enemies of the republic, knowing what they have got away with, will get so brazen, they will make another attempt.
On the very same day that security was full of holes due to a perfect storm incompetency and negligence, Thomas Crooks just happened to enter with venue his weapon and rangefinder and drone and set up on the roof of a building a short distance from where Trump was going to appear and, although Crooks was noticed by security and people attending the rally as a possible threat to the Trump, Trump was still allowed to take the stage and no action was taken against Crooks until he got off his shots.
There are too many coincidences here, and too much lying and ass covering in the aftermath, to convince me that it was something other than planned and intentional.
As far as who was behind it — I won’t even speculate, but we need to find out. If our government is in the business of assassinating major American political figures, we need to find out. And we need to remember that whoever was responsible for or was complicit in this attempt on the life of Trump also has the blood of one murder victim on their hands, and two other attempted murders. We need to find out.
In 1984, my wife and our six-month-old son went to D.C. for a friend’s wedding. We stayed a few days to see the city and, one Sunday morning, we took a walk with our son in a stroller and as we walked onto the grounds of the Supreme Court, a security man came out to ask why we were there and told us to leave. That guy was doing his job. Whenever I hear that line from Paul Simon’s song about “the bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio,” I think about that guy doing his job.
If they keep acting like the SS is just incompetent, they’ll never get to what really happened .
No, it was murder. Corey Comperatore died when he was hit in the head with a bullet.
If a person dies as a result of an attempted felony, it’s murder, automatically in all 50 states.
That would be very bad if something like that were to happen.
They certainly will. They’re taking off the gloves and you can feel it in the air.
DAN BONGINO said that ROWE is worse than CHEATLE.
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