The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released an interim report on the Trump shooting.
<><>Senators examined at least 2,800 pages of Secret Service documents
<><>interviewed dozens of SS agents and local law enforcement officials.
<><>found SS inaction directly related to numerous SS failures
<><>SS failures in planning, communications, intel sharing and l/e coordination.
<><>Chairman Gary Peters: “Every failure was preventable.”
The tax-subsidized SS is well-staffed
<><>stunning SS payroll numbers are coming out of the Trump shooting debacle.
<><>there’s 7100 Secret Service Special agents and 2800 Task Force Officers,
<><>plus Uniformed Division SS officers, Technical Law Enforcement officers,
<><>and SS administrative, professional, and technical personnel
<><>all sucking off the tax-paid govt payroll.
<><>Complete with perks, privileges, eternal Cadillac healthcare, bonuses, and pensions.
<><>Roughly half of the Secret Service’s $3 billion budget is spent on “protective services”
<><>SS has a robust taxpayer financed cybercrime division,
<><>state-of-the-art forensic labs
<><>and a threat-assessment center that studies “how to mitigate and train against threats.”
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They’re not saying anything on our local news about it being totally cancelled. It was moved to an indoor venue versus and outdoor venue as of yesterday.
I’ll keep an eye out for local details - if they ever give us any!