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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received 311 pages of U.S. Secret Service (USSS) records that show the Secret Service has made it a top priority that “diversity and inclusion is not just ‘talked about’ – but demonstrated by all employees through ‘Every Action, Every Day.’” [Emphasis in original] The records show the Secret Service, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), demands that 12 percent of its workforce be composed of “persons with disabilities,” and that it is the policy of the Secret Service to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to such non-merit...

The U.S. Secret Service has placed at least five agents on leave, including the head of the Pittsburgh field office, as a result of its investigation into last month's assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. One agent on Trump's detail and three others in the Pittsburgh office were among those placed on leave, according to two federal law enforcement sources. It's unclear if all of these actions are disciplinary, since agents are routinely placed on leave during the course of investigations for various reasons, including mental health relief.

Three weeks ago, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe angrily pushed back on senators’ calls to immediately fire or discipline key agents directly responsible for the security failures that led to the assassination attempt against former President Trump at last month’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Since that time, Secret Service leaders have placed several members of the Pittsburgh Field Office on administrative leave, according to three sources in the Secret Service community. (Administrative leave occurs when a federal employee temporarily leaves their position and work duties – either because of a misconduct investigation or medical or mental health issue....

The more information that leaks out regarding the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the worse it looks for the Secret Service. Senator Josh Hawley on Friday obtained more damning information from a Secret Service whistleblower that the agency headquarters specifically ordered agents not to request any additional manpower for the event because such requests would be denied on the spot. It’s almost as if the Secret Service senior staffers wanted President Trump dead and buried. How can he place any trust in the agency going forward? Below is the entire letter from Hawley containing the full details of the betrayal:

It was a shot from above that killed would-be assassin Thomas Crooks at a July campaign rally where he almost murdered President Donald Trump. But it was a shot from below that took Crooks out of action first, according to a congressional report ... And that shot, fired by a local law enforcement sniper, was incredible. ... Louisiana Republican Rep. Clay Higgins... Crooks fired eight shots, killing a firefighter who attended the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally with his family, critically wounding two others, and coming within a hair’s breadth of ending the life of the 45th president. ... The ninth shot...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Secret Service to use bulletproof glass to protect Trump at outdoor rallies From justthenews.com 4:14 PM · Aug 15, 2024

The U.S. Secret Service is making arrangements for former President Donald Trump to resume outdoor campaign rallies by surrounding his podium with bulletproof glass, multiple sources told ABC News. The measure is typically used exclusively for sitting presidents, but the Secret Service is making an exception following the first attempted assassination of a presidential candidate since George Wallace in 1972. The Secret Service declined to comment on its use of ballistic glass. Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said the campaign does not comment on security measures relating to Trump. The Secret Service recommended that Trump stop holding outdoor rallies last...

A female Secret Service agent on duty to protect former President Donald Trump at a North Carolina rally Wednesday left her post to breastfeed without permission, RealClearPolitics reported. Soon before Trump's arrival in Asheville, North Carolina, the Secret Service site agent conducted a final sweep of the walking route "and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president," the outlet's Susan Crabtree posted Thursday on X. The woman agent, out of the Atlanta Field Office, and two family...

The Secret Service has made another concerning security mishap while protecting former President Donald Trump. During the former president's campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina, on Wednesday afternoon, a female Secret Service agent allegedly left her position without telling the site agent - the individual in charge of security. The agent departed her post just minutes before Trump's motorcade arrived at the venue to breastfeed her child in a side room meant for agency work, RealClearPolitics first reported. When the site agent conducted a last-minute walkthrough of the route Trump would take, they noticed the agent's absence and later discovered...

"The site agent went to do one final sweep of the walking route and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president. A working agent on duty cannot bring a child to a protective assignment. The woman was out of the Atlanta Field Office. The woman agent was in the room with two other family members. The agent and her family members bypassed the Uniformed Division checkpoint and were escorted by an unpinned event staff into the room...

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Rep. Comer: Secret Service turned down security recommendations for Trump ahead of Penn. rally From justthenews.com 8:03 PM · Aug 14, 2024

Who authorized this? A man impersonating a Secret Service agent was spotted at a JD Vance event in Detroit, Michigan on August 7. A man who is not a Secret Service agent was spotted wearing a Secret Service patch on an armored vest issued by another federal agency. RealClearInvestigations reporter Susan Crabtree presented the photo to the Secret Service and they confirmed the man was improperly wearing a Secret Service patch.

"Over the last two weeks, the Secret Service inspections department, which investigates employee misconduct, is homing in on allegations against an agent on the Trump detail who played a key role during the Butler rally and is partially responsible for developing the security plan, which contained egregious mistakes that left an opening for shooter Thomas Crooks.° "The allegations against the site agent are a separate matter.The agent is now under the microscope not only for her role in devising the security plan for the rally. She’s also facing internal scrutiny for posting videos and photos from her protective assignments to...

After allowing former President Donald Trump to get shot in the head, the Secret Service took a new approach to security last week by breaking into private businesses while working Democrat campaign events to use the toilet.Largely unnoticed until this weekend, a Business Insider report published last Wednesday revealed that the Secret Service purportedly broke into a Massachusetts hair salon while protecting a nearby Kamala Harris fundraiser to use its restrooms. The incident reportedly occurred on July 27, which is when the Democrat presidential nominee held her event at a nearby performing arts center.According to the report, “The owner of...

Jeff Ostroff Analyzed more of the Police Bodycam video BWC2-122111 released by Butler, PA police, which shows the Trump shooter running from north to south along the roof of the AGR building, and how this narrows down the spot where the Trump shooter May have entered and climbed up to the roof before firing at the Trump Rally..

The shear audacity. The Secret Service apologized to a salon owner in Massachusetts who alleged that individuals broke into her business to use the bathroom during the agency’s security work for a nearby Veep Kamala Harris fundraiser. Berkshires businesswoman Alicia Powers says someone picked the lock and broke into her store for the bathroom — after a Secret Service officer covered a camera outside her salon with tape.The people who proceeded to use the bathroom included a pair in emergency medical uniforms, a person in camouflage law-enforcement gear and someone in a dark suit and white shirt similar to a...

Thomas Crooks is seen 3 times on the AGR building by on officer's body camera! at the Trump Rally on July 13, 2024.

It was worse than a bad hair day.Secret Service agents taped over a security camera and broke into a Massachusetts hair salon while securing the area for a Kamala Harris campaign event, according to the salon's owner.(snip)When Powers returned to the property later that day, she found the door's lock looked like it had been picked, she told BI.The people who entered the Four One Three Salon didn't do much damage aside from leaving an untidy bathroom behind, Powers said.But what bothered her was what she saw as sheer disregard for her business, by entering without permission and leaving the...

In case anyone doubted that the Secret Service was engaged in a cover-up over the cocaine baggie found in the White House in 2022 — it was. The latest reports: As soon as a uniformed officer found the drugs and notified disgraced ex-Director Kim Cheatle that he wanted to follow certain crime scene protocols, the retaliations began — starting with that officer allegedly being taken off the case. Leadership apparently began to pressure forensics workers to stop trying to find DNA matches, and sought to avoid interviewing the hundreds of people with access to the space where the drugs were...

Butler PA officers at Trump rally after the shooting, discussing that they had warned USSS about vulnerabilities far in advance. “I f**ing told them to post guys over here. I told the Secret Service Tuesday!”