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The report seems to contain what should be done and accomplished in an ideal world of protective agencies. But I'm not sure the USSS has the manpower at this time to handle all the rallies, several in a week sometimes. And each site may have similarities but also peculiar problems that raise the bar. I doubt that in this campaign season all the deficiencies can be addressed. Candidates may just have to adjust their schedules to what is reasonably possible. Candidate staff and USSS perhaps just haven't really communicated.
 
Yes, the USSS is definatly FUBAR. Rowe was the one who denied all the requests for more people, gear, and tech. A true scandel.

I don't know and maybe you do but just may be that Rowe didn't have the manpower or equipment to meet the requests/demands of the campaign staff.
 
The upshot of this "scandal" as it has been labeled is that the Senate members, politicians all, realize that their butts can also be on the line and they better increase USSS funding. Naturally this being the nature of things and it being Washington, so much money may be lavished on the USSS that another scandal will arise: Woeful waste, the administration that drew up the new budget blamed come the next election cycle.
 
Not surprised, many knew this from that other thread. ;)

The SS may not have the manning, or maybe they do, folks are always clamoring for give me more. Look at school failures, always "needing" more money….maybe it's the curriculum and not the money? :confused:

Any of these events can, and has, been supplemented with local LE.
This was managerial incompetence by the senior agent in charge, imo.
 
One thing to remember about replacing a manager or in this case agents in charge, no guarantee exists that the replacements will be any better, perhaps even worse. But those doing the replacing can claim progress because "we did something."

Certainly SS agents have not covered themselves in glory by some of their personal shenanigans as reported over the years.
It just may be that the SS never was as good as its reputation.
 
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The Trump/PA attempt assassination hearing is on the FOX network now.
 
I'm a little confused, as always, but I thought I read that the SS sniper couldn't see Crooks from his vantage point. Crooks got off 8 shots with his semi-auto rifle but was quickly stopped by the SS sniper. I have a picture of Crooks' head after the SS got him. It was a good head shot. How fast can the SS move to where he could see Crooks and get the perfect shot off? Or was he all of a sudden able to see Crooks and end the threat? I know our trained snipers are good, but that's REAL good. Let's just hope this doesn't happen again. So sad that poor citizen in the stands had to die over this.
 
I'm in the "it was willful incompetence" category.
Security failures were deliberate.
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Highly improbable. Very few people are actually smart enough to conspire to do anything improper with skill and without detection. The odds of keeping something malodorous a secret after doing so are really small. Ben Franklin said, and this was adopted by the Hell's Angels: "3 people can keep a secret if two of them are dead."

I am pretty sure that the errors made were the result of various forms of complacency, "not my job", and a failure to assess proficiently, likely compounded by inadequate staffing.
 
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