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Originally posted by parabellum:
TDS: There's no cure, but this debilitating chronic condition can be managed.

The video is hilarious. The comments are hilariouser...

The new AF1 looks fantastic, the paint colors and scheme are perfect, much better than robins egg blue of the past.

Liberal heads are exploding that Trump is flying in a new AF1 and the new paint colors are Trumps teams doing..

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2072484638359003243

“Secret Service agents knew Thomas Crooks had a rifle and had made his way onto a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania with a clear shot at Donald Trump— and never issued a word to the president's own protective detail. [Biden’s Secret Service agents]

Those details were revealed in a damning and newly unredacted report released Thursday the DHS's Office of Inspector General. 

According to the report, the Secret Service missed multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt Thomas Crooks’s attempted assassination of then-former President Donald Trump during the July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. 

'The Secret Service’s overall lack of policy and processes coupled with limited intelligence sharing and poor collaboration and communication with protectee staff and state and local law enforcement set the conditions that led to missing opportunities to prevent and detect the attempted assassination,' the OIG report said. …”

https://mol.im/a/15949349

Thanks for the article, but I don’t understand what this refers to:

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
[Biden’s Secret Service agents] [Emphasis added.]

I don’t see any mention of Biden’s agents in the linked article. What would Biden’s detail have to do with the incident?

It was also telling that the Secret Service wanted to park trucks in a place that would have blocked the killer’s line of sight to President Trump, but Trump’s staff vetoed it because it would have messed with photographs. That was just one of countless examples of how it’s not always the security personnel who are at fault for security lapses. In my admittedly limited and lower level experience that is extremely common. I could cite far worse examples that I personally observed.

^^^^^
I intended the square brackets to indicate my comment on the article text. Just as your “[Emphasis added.]” was doing.

It was Biden’s SS because, as president, he’s ultimately responsible.

Ah. Thanks.

Two minutes is a LONG time to have known an assassin was staged to take a shot.

Remember Kimberly Cheatle?


"Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing congressional outcry and calls to resign over security lapses leading to former President Donald Trump’s near-assassination Saturday, landed her role thanks largely to a close relationship with first lady Jill Biden, The Post has learned.

Cheatle, 53, is the second woman to lead the presidential protection agency and secured the non-Senate-confirmed role in August 2022 after a three-year stint as senior director of global security at PepsiCo.

Before that, she had served 27 years in the Secret Service, beginning in the Clinton administration.

Four sources close to President Biden’s family, including people who interacted with Cheatle during the Obama-Biden administration, said she was well liked by the future first lady and her most senior aides, including top adviser Anthony Bernal."

https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/...dens-office-sources/

Another related article:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...Ap58j8Nk0gDuka5oc%3D

Secret Service Missed 102 Warnings Before Trump Assassination Attempt in Butler: Report

The Homeland Security Department report lists communications failures and security lapses that led up to the gunman opening fire from a rooftop.

The U.S. Secret Service missed multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024, including missing more than 102 radio transmissions warning of a suspicious person, a Department of Homeland Security report concluded.

The report, released on July 2 by the department’s Office of Inspector General, chronicles a series of communication failures, inadequate planning, limited intelligence sharing, and security lapses that combined to create the conditions that allowed gunman Thomas Crooks to open fire from the roof of a nearby building during a July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler. Crooks was fatally shot by a Secret Service agent.
Among the report’s most significant findings was that Secret Service members did not receive 102 radio transmissions “that local law enforcement officers in a separate communications room received concerning an increasingly intense search for a suspicious person. Instead, we found that the Secret Service received only five phone calls and three text messages about Crooks. As a result, Secret Service members did not alert President Trump’s protective detail about concerns of a suspicious person.”

The Secret Service would have delayed Trump’s speech or removed him from the stage had they been aware of the search for Crooks, the report stated.

The report also said the Secret Service failed to detect a drone that Crooks flew over the rally site about two hours before the shooting. Investigators said the agency’s counter-drone system was inoperable because of a malfunction, and the lone operator assigned to the event lacked sufficient training to repair the equipment. The system remained offline while Crooks flew the drone for nearly nine minutes, allowing him to survey both the stage and the rooftop he later used to carry out the attack.

The report also found serious communication breakdowns between the Secret Service and local law enforcement. The Secret Service never received three radio reports from law enforcement that Crooks had climbed onto a roof with a rifle.

The inspector general also found that classified intelligence concerning a long-range threat to Trump was not shared with the Pittsburgh field office or agents responsible for planning security at the rally. The report said broader dissemination of that intelligence likely would have resulted in additional security personnel being assigned to the event.

Investigators further concluded that the Secret Service failed to ensure the American Glass Research complex, where Crooks launched the attack, was secured by state and local law enforcement. In addition, the agency did not use available resources to block the rooftop’s line of sight to the stage, despite recognizing it as a potential vulnerability.

The inspector general issued seven recommendations to improve protective operations. The Secret Service agreed with all of them, and the report said some have already been implemented while others remain in progress.

Another:

https://www.newsmax.com/us/dhs...dkt_nbr=010502tu4aje

So now we have the what. When do we get the who and why?

I'm sure there are many who will not be satisfied with "we'll try to do better in the future."