INCOMPETENCE, OR POLITICAL BIAS? WHY NOT BOTH? A Secret Service Story.

Tim Walz did show up, a little later, accompanied by the Secret Service. Howe observed that once they arrived, the Secret Service agents began wanding those who entered the church. But they never did anything about the 75 to 100 who were already inside the church when they showed up. No effort whatsoever was made to assure security with respect to those people.

This was particularly striking to Senator Howe because he was carrying at the time. Given the location, it is likely that others who attended the funeral, and were already inside the church when the Secret Service arrived, were also armed.

This is the kind of absurd failure of security that typified the Secret Service’s actions in Butler, Pennsylvania: the most obvious security precautions were not taken. This time, the protectee was a Democrat.

Regardless, the Secret Service should be stripped of its protective responsibilities and replaced by somebody else. Maybe Junior ROTC.

LIKE THE COUNTRY, THE CANDIDATE IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Secret Service Knew of Trump Shooter 27 Minutes Before Shots Fired.

INCOMPETENCE, OR WORSE: Gat on a Hot Tin Roof: July 13 Whistleblower Report Exposes Secret Service Incompetence.

HEY, REMEMBER THAT TIME THE SECRET SERVICE FAILED IN MULTIPLE WAYS DURING THAT NEAR-ASSASSINATION OF DONALD TRUMP AND THEN IT ALL GOT SWEPT UNDER THE RUG?

Dem CT Sen Blumenthal on info about Trump shooting after briefing by acting USSS Dir Rowe: I think the American people are going to be shocked, astonished and appalled by what we will report to them about the failures by the Secret Service in this assassination attempt on the…

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) September 12, 2024

And this from the replies: “If this is coming from Blumenthal, I can’t imagine how bad it actually is.”

Developing…

LOCAL COPS WERE QUICKER THAN THE SECRET SERVICE: We Have Explosive New Whistleblower Revelations About the Trump Assassination Attempt.

ERIC COWPERTHWAITE: Re-Holstering Is Difficult: What We Can learn From The Secret Service During The Trump Attack. “Seriously, the holster, gun belt, magazine carriers are just as important as the gun and the training. If you spent $1000 on an Sig P320 X with red dot optics, but only spent $20 on the holster, you are in trouble.”

One would expect, though, that “trained law enforcement officers” would have mastered this very basic, though important, firearms skill well enough that they could perform it under stress. And another video of Trump arriving at the hospital appears to show the same agent having the same problem again.

WHISTLEBLOWER: Secret Service Told Not to Request Additional Security For Trump’s Butler Rally.

WRISTS SLAPPED: Secret Service Employees Placed on Administrative Leave after Trump Assassination Attempt.

Multiple Secret Service employees are being placed on administrative leave after the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump during a campaign rally last month, according to multiple reports.

A member of Trump’s security detail and personnel from the Secret Service’s Pittsburgh field office who helped coordinate the security at Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa. have been told to work on administrative duties from home, CNN and Fox News reported.

The security failures leading up to the attempt on Trump’s life are one of the most significant law-enforcement failures in American history and remain the subject of multiple ongoing investigations. Acting Secret Service chief Ron Rowe admitted the assassination attempt was an indefensible failure when he testified before the Senate two weeks after the incident took place.

Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa., managed to climb up a nearby rooftop and fire eight shots at Trump and his supporters at the campaign rally, wounding Trump’s right ear and killing former fire chief Corey Comperatore. Two other victims, Marine veteran David Dutch and retiree James Copenhaver were also wounded by Crooks’s gun shots.

“The U.S. Secret Service is committed to investigating the decisions and actions of personnel related to the event in Butler, Pennsylvania and the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump,” Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi told National Review in a statement. “The U.S. Secret Service’s mission assurance review is progressing, and we are examining the processes, procedures and factors that led to this operational failure.”

Well, one way or another, it was a failure. Or as America’s Newspaper of Record reported last month: Secret Service Director Resigns In Disgrace For Failing To Assassinate Trump.

WHAT, THE SECRET SERVICE WASN’T HIRING? ‘Most Wanted’ fugitive sought in 2004 murder found working as police officer.

I REMEMBER WHEN PEOPLE RESPECTED THE SECRET SERVICE:

USSS chief Cheatle presided over the greatest collapse in institutional reputation since the Russian VDV got clobbered in the opening days of the Ukraine war.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 16, 2024

It may be, of course, that people were simply misinformed until recently.

“RULE OF LAW:” U.S. Secret Service Breaks into Massachusetts Hair Salon and Tapes Over Security Camera, Allegedly to Let People Use the Bathroom During Kamala Harris Fundraiser.

The entitled, incompetent Secret Service should be disbanded and replaced by people who are competent and know their place.

HANLON’S RAZOR MIGHT NOT BE SHARP ENOUGH TO CUT THIS ONE: Did the Secret Service Abandon Trump in Butler? New Body Cam Videos Make You Wonder.

CURIOSER AND CURIOSER:   Trump Assassination Attempt: Local Police Told Secret Service Days Before Rally to Secure the Roof.

MORE SECRET SERVICE ROT EXPOSED: It’s easy to forget or not even be aware of the significant role of the United States Secret Service (USSS) in the events of Jan. 6, 2021. And like the Butler fiasco that nearly cost former President Donald Trump his life and the still unexplained cocaine found in the White House, there are multiple questions about the Secret Service’s work prior to and on the day of the riot.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) was finally able earlier this week to force disclosure by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of a damning Inspector General (IG) report.

Based on the evidence uncovered by the IG, a strong case can be made that now-former Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle should have been summarily fired rather than allowed to resign and slink away with no accountability.

And there are a bunch of other senior execs at the Secret Service who should be facing unpleasant consequences for their actions, as described by the IG. Find out why in my latest PJ Media column.

1. THEY SUCK. Thoughts on the Secret Service. “I think it is now established beyond doubt that the Secret Service is stonewalling the investigation into the Trump assassination attempt. Information has been dribbling out, and every bit of it looks horrible. . . . If this had happened in any other state–say Mexico, Brazil, Chile, or Serbia, would you even wonder whether incompetence was the cause or default to the explanation that the incompetence was a cover for something more sinister?”

IT’S ALL LIES: Another J6 Lie Goes Into the Wood Chipper With the Release of Secret Service Report.

VICTORIA TAFT: Another J6 Lie Goes Into the Woodchipper With the Release of Secret Service Report.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Report: Former Secret Service Chief Kimberly Cheatle Wanted To Destroy Cocaine Evidence.

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.

Multiple heated confrontations and disagreements over how best to handle the cocaine ensued after a Secret Services Uniformed Division officer found the bag on July 2, 2023, a quiet Sunday while President Biden and his family were at Camp David in Maryland, the sources said.

At least one Uniformed Division officer was initially assigned to investigate the cocaine incident. But after he told his supervisors, including Cheatle and Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe, who was deputy director at the time, that he wanted to follow a certain crime-scene investigative protocol, he was taken off the case, according to a source within the Secret Service community familiar with the circumstances of his removal.

Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi did not immediately return RCP’s request for comment.

The discovery of the bag of cocaine posed an unusual problem for Cheatle, who resigned in the face of bipartisan pressure after the July 13 assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

Earlier: Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle landed job after push by Jill Biden’s office, sources say.

HEADS SHOULD ROLL, BUT HAS ANYONE EVEN BEEN FIRED? Secret Service Looks Worse–and More Guilty–Every Day.

BETRAYAL OF DUTY: Director Rowe Personally Crippled Trump’s Secret Service Team. “The security ‘breakdowns’ were so massive and implausible when combined that any large police force could have done a better job than the most elite protection unit in the world. The shooter was identified, tracked, photographed, filmed on the roof, the Secret Service was warned multiple times, the shooter was in the line of sight of the snipers, and Trump was trotted out onto the stage and kept there as the shooter was lining up his shot in full view of the Secret Service snipers. None of that is disputable.”

AS THEY SHOULD:  Trump Assassination Attempt: Local Law Enforcement, D.A. Blast Secret Service ‘Ridiculous’ Remarks.

REALLY SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE HARD FOR THE SECRET SERVICE TO MISS THIS. He’s not sneaking, he’s just freely running around up there on the slopey roof.

Video from Donald Trump assassination attempt victim’s POV shows figure moving on roof moments before gunfire in Butler PA
https://t.co/y21Fof5GPt #FoxNews

— UnboundedLife (@unboundedlife1) July 31, 2024

EXPOSE THEM: ‘Ridiculous:’ Local Law Enforcement in Butler Strike Back at Secret Service Director.

NOTHING’S SHOCKING: The Reason Why the Secret Service Had No Drone Over Trump Attack Will Leave You Slack-Jawed.

HMM: Secret Service Sniper Warns of Another Assassination Attempt Before Election.