Thursday, September 19, 2024

How the Secret Service Missed Chances to Halt a Tragedy at a Trump Rally

(Like 9/11 the Trump shooting at the Butler Farm Show grounds is being whitewashed as a 'failure of intelligence' or a 'failure to plan' when it was actually a planned operation carried out by the Secret Service themselves. Hence the need for Operation Secret Service Redemption)

from the NYT

Disorganized communications. Security threats identified but dropped. Vague instructions. Lack of follow-through.

These lapses are emerging as key reasons the U.S. Secret Service failed to protect former President Donald J. Trump from an assassination attempt at a campaign rally on July 13 in Butler, Pa., a New York Times investigation has found.

The agency’s failures at the Butler Farm Show grounds — where a gunman’s bullets grazed Mr. Trump’s ear, wounded two rally attendees and killed another — are expected to be laid bare in coming weeks in an internal assessment delivered by the Secret Service itself and in a report from an independent Senate investigation. The pressures on the agency have taken on even greater urgency in light of what the F.B.I. identified as another attempt on Mr. Trump’s life at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday...

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