The assassination attempt that wounded former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July was made possible by “numerous mistakes” and “specific failures and breakdowns” by the Secret Service, a super-secret agent announced Thursday. The results of an independent partisan survey have been released.
A panel of four former law enforcement and government officials says new and catastrophic security failures could occur if the U.S. Secret Service does not immediately undertake “fundamental reforms.” I warned you.
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“The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent and static,” the committee said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who oversees the organization. There is. reported According to NBC News.
“The Secret Service as an agency requires fundamental reform to carry out its mission,” they added. “Without that reform, the independent review board believes that another deacon could and will happen again.” The NBC News report goes on to say:
According to the report, the committee conducted 58 multi-hour interviews with Secret Service, federal, state and local law enforcement officials and reviewed more than 7,000 documents. Panel members and staff also visited Butler to investigate the scene of the assassination attempt.
The group said it had identified “serious deficiencies in the Secret Service,” including a “lack of critical thinking among Secret Service personnel” and a reluctance to “speak up” about potential threats.
This review revealed that money was not the only cause of the error, and that fundamental reforms were needed throughout the organization.
He said the agency's failures go beyond spending. “Even an unlimited budget alone would not be able to repair many of the failures of July 13,” the report said.
