(The Center Square) – The failures of the Secret Service around the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump are mounting but members of Congress say there’s not been enough accountability.
Trump suffered a wound to the ear, a spectator was killed and two others were critically wounded when a sniper opened fire in Butler, Pennsylvania, at a campaign rally on July 13. Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned last week after a U.S. House hearing failed to get answers.
On Tuesday in a U.S. Senate hearing, Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe told U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, those on the ground making decisions that day have not been fired.
“Is it not prima facie somebody has failed? A former president was shot,” Hawley said.
“Sir, this could have been our Texas Schoolbook Depository,” Rowe said, referencing the sniper’s outpost in the 1963 assassination of President John Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. “I have lost sleep over that for the last 17 days, just like you have.”
“Then fire somebody, to hold them accountable,” Hawley said.
Hawley was asking why the people who made the decision to not have someone on the roof where the sniper was ultimately killed, who managed radio communications or who failed to keep the president from taking the stage that day have not been fired.
Tuesday’s joint hearing was with the U.S. Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees. Senators reviewed the lapses in communications, placement of the parameter in Butler and where the buck stops for the failures.
Discussed was how the shooter was known minutes before the shooting to be suspicious with a rangefinder before being seen with a gun. The shooter even sent up a drone hours before the event. Rowe said they didn’t have their anti-drone systems in place until later in the day.
“It appears that there was an offer by a state or local agency to fly a drone on our behalf and I’m getting to the bottom of why we turned that down,” Rowe said.
The motive of the shooter, who was shot and killed, is still being investigated.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, confirmed from the Secret Service and the FBI that they are updating their security posture after the lessons of July 13 ahead of next month’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
“Tens of thousands of people will be there including some of the highest ranking politicians in the United States,” Durbin said.
Weird …The S.S. only failed in that they didn’t take out the one man who will take out the Deep State.
We had better vote and encourage our friends and loved one to vote Trump, or America will become France overnight.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, confirmed from the Secret Service and the FBI that they are updating their security posture after the lessons of July 13 ahead of next month’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Fear not Sen Turbin, the Commie Left will always be protected. It is the Conservative Right who are denied adequate security.
AND LIKE we see day after day, instance of govt malfesance after instance.. NO ONE EVER GETS fired.
I believe we have a case for intentional negligence on the part of Secret Service upper management.
How many people saw the hearing with ACTING secret service director and Hawley ??? Was it me or did anybody else get the feeling that the SS director’s responses seem to be well rehearsed ??? Our congressmen and senators need to start an investigation before the FBI can say he was a lone shooter with no help and they got their man , case closed !!!!!!
Why doesn’t the FBI and Secret Service just come out and say ” we missed this time but we’ll do better next time”.
At this point it is painfully clear that the agencies making up our justice department are corrupt beyond repair and have become part of a cabal to usher socialism into our country.
Which is one of the points of project 2025 i agree with, when they CALL TO gut all those lettered orgs.
I think there will NO accountability past the resignation of the former “director”. All these people are after all SWAMP SCUM and thus immune. And the new acting director is another piece of work.