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Multiple Secret Service Agents Placed on Leave
It's part of the fallout from the investigation into the Trump assassination attempt

Multiple Secret Service Agents Placed on Leave

The Secret Service has placed multiple agents on leave as it investigates the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last month in Butler, Pennsylvania, reports CBS News. Those placed on leave include the head of the agency's Pittsburgh field office, which was responsible for planning and coordinating security, per NBC News. Meanwhile, agents assigned to Trump's day-to-day protection remain on the job, notes Real Clear Politics, which assesses: "The differing treatment of the two teams is spurring internal dissension and speculation that the Pittsburgh office could bear the brunt of the serious security failures that day, even though there's plenty of blame to go around."

The question is a how a 20-year-old gunman was able to position himself on a nearby roof and begin firing shots that hit the former president's ear and killed one attendee, per CNN. In police bodycam video that emerged after the shooting, one officer is heard saying he had warned the Secret Service that someone should have been positioned on the roof used by the gunman. (The head of the agency resigned after being grilled by Congress.)

By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted Aug 23, 2024 11:18 AM CDT

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Bekeart said:
Multiple Secret Service Agents Placed on Leave
It's part of the fallout from the investigation into the Trump assassination attempt

Multiple Secret Service Agents Placed on Leave

The Secret Service has placed multiple agents on leave as it investigates the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last month in Butler, Pennsylvania, reports CBS News. Those placed on leave include the head of the agency's Pittsburgh field office, which was responsible for planning and coordinating security, per NBC News. Meanwhile, agents assigned to Trump's day-to-day protection remain on the job, notes Real Clear Politics, which assesses: "The differing treatment of the two teams is spurring internal dissension and speculation that the Pittsburgh office could bear the brunt of the serious security failures that day, even though there's plenty of blame to go around."

The question is a how a 20-year-old gunman was able to position himself on a nearby roof and begin firing shots that hit the former president's ear and killed one attendee, per CNN. In police bodycam video that emerged after the shooting, one officer is heard saying he had warned the Secret Service that someone should have been positioned on the roof used by the gunman. (The head of the agency resigned after being grilled by Congress.)

By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted Aug 23, 2024 11:18 AM CDT

Bekeart
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Well the simple answer is "There is something rotten in Denmark" William Shakespeare
 
For events that qualified for SS protection, I thought they had a dedicated advance team that did the sight assessments with help from local LEO's and the local SS office. Maybe candidates and former POTUS events weren't handled the same way. Perhaps the preplanning for non-POTUS events are handled by local offices only or perhaps that is what happened due to the shortage of qualified planners.
 
It doesn't require a trained and experienced SS planner to take a 30 second look around an event site to discover that there is an obvious building with a big roof 150 yards away that would make a great perch for a sniper. Any 20-YO kid could do that. And did.
 
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It's plain to see someone dropped the ball. I wonder if it was on purpose??? Rotten in Denmark?, of course.
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So, the agents were in Denmark and never saw Butler until the day they arrived on site? But certainly someone in the Fargo office didn't do his/her job. Call the agent in charge in Honolulu
and get the answers. Certainly something is fishy in New Orleans as well.
 
DWalt said:
It doesn't require a trained and experienced SS planner to take a 30 second look around an event site to discover that there is an obvious building with a big roof 150 yards away that would make a great perch for a sniper. Any 20-YO kid could do that. And did.
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Yeah, and he knew he could get on it and it would be unguarded. He just knew.
 
I read a week or do back that Burden approved SS protection for the former head of the agency. Another article said she was on Burden's detail when he was VP and his wife got really close to the agent, it made it sound like Jill was responsible for being hired as the head of the agency.

If that is true, what a mess.
 
tops said:
I wonder if the agents placed on leave are paid or unpaid. Larry
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They are on Administrative leave. They are on full pay and benefits but taken off field duty pending the completion of the investigation. If they are found at fault then disciplinary action can be taken.

This is the normal procedure for any LEO involved in a questionable situation with potential social or political problems. Here in Virginia for example, any officer involved in a suspect being shot or injured is placed on administrative leave while the incident is under investigation by higher authority, usually Virginia State Police. I'm sure this is true for most jurisdictions.
 
As I said in another thread...The lower level guys get the shaft...the upper and up uppers that make the decisions pass the buck and are protected. I just hope that someone in power didn't make a really stupid choice. If they did...I hope they aren't protected. There just seem to be more questions not being answered. Not much of a believer in coincidence at this high a level...and no way to question the idiot shooter
 
I haven't seen anything lately about some alleged pattern of visits by someone to and from the killer's home and some office complex near an FBI or some government entity office in a city other than where the killer lived. Has this been debunked, or is there something more here?
 
I read that a SWAT operator was the first to shoot at Crooks and hit his butt stock maybe disabling his AR15. Crooks went down after the shot then popped back up and the SS sniper killed him. The SWAT operator ran towards Crooks while Crooks was shooting and took his shot. The SWAT operator should get a medal for bravery. I believe the SWAT operator had a 100yd shot.
 
Many comments were revealed from: "this was not a High Priority rally- so lets use DHS (untrained/unqualified) and have this as OJT. Also, let's have female DEI hires and someone who is breastfeeding. And BTW-- let's blame the local LEO if anything bad happens .
 
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Many comments were revealed from: "this was not a High Priority rally- so lets use DHS (untrained/unqualified) and have this as OJT. Also, let's have female DEI hires and someone who is breastfeeding. And BTW-- let's blame the local LEO if anything bad happens .
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AND , if something goes wrong we'll just stonewall . The media will help us cover this up .
 
And there is also the Iranian honeypot theory. It will probably never end so long as there is someone around to make up a story. The evidence suggests that the event involved a shooter who was a kid about a half bubble off level combined with numerous incompetent SS personnel at every level.
 
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Well detailed explanation. It's amazing how many people don't understand the concept of "due process." That included some of my former bosses who found that their disciplinary actions were overturned because they didn't follow the procedures in the personnel manual that they wrote. :mad:

Bastogne71 said:
They are on Administrative leave. They are on full pay and benefits but taken off field duty pending the completion of the investigation. If they are found at fault then disciplinary action can be taken.

This is the normal procedure for any LEO involved in a questionable situation with potential social or political problems. Here in Virginia for example, any officer involved in a suspect being shot or injured is placed on administrative leave while the incident is under investigation by higher authority, usually Virginia State Police. I'm sure this is true for most jurisdictions.
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But conspiracy theories are much more fun. Just remember that for a conspiracy theorist, the lack of evidence is all the evidence that they need.

The official wording my agency used was "Suspended with pay, without penalty pending investigation... "

It was often the prelude to a longer unpaid suspension or termination proceedings.

DWalt said:
And there is also the Iranian honeypot theory. It will probably never end so long as there is someone around to make up a story. The evidence suggests that the event involved a shooter who was a kid about a half bubble off level combined with numerous incompetent SS personnel at every level.
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This ordeal still turns my stomach. How could a single tasked, highly trained, best of the best, elite law enforcement organization have such an epic failure on what should have been a relatively routine detail? Again, I don't often buy into conspiracy theories, but in this instance, the SS has made it easy.
One of the POTUS candidates has stated if elected they would form an assassination task force. If they are not successful, I doubt we will ever get a full accounting of the shooting. Would it be due to a lack of interest or are there reasons for concealing certain facts?
 
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