Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal has already let everyone know his feelings towards the Secret Service and DHS regarding the investigation into the security failings leading to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Blumenthal did not hold back—twice. He lashed out at the USSS and DHS for stonewalling Congress, even saying the details would outrage the American people.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) expressed the same frustrations on Wednesday:
“Things like the autopsy report, you know, the House has it under subpoena. We don’t have it,” he told reporters.”[The] toxicology report; we don’t have any of the trajectory reports. So, where’d the bullets go? We don’t even know how they handled the crime scene,” said Johnson, ranking member of the HSGAC Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI).The senator pointed to the amount of time that has passed since the July 13 assassination attempt against Trump, noting, “There’s just basic information we should have right now, and we don’t have it.””We haven’t been able to interview the sniper who took out [Thomas] Crooks,” Johnson said. Crooks is the would-be assassin that, during the July 13 rally in Pennsylvania, opened fire, grazing the former president’s ear, killing a rally attendee and critically injuring two others.
The shooter murdered Corey Comperatore and injured David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74.
The FBI hasn’t given the senators its FD-302 forms, which agents use when performing interviews.
In July, FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told Johnson the agency would give the documents to him as soon as possible.
The FBI hasn’t handed over any FD-302 forms.
“They’ve done 1,000 interviews. We’ve done 12,” said Johnson.
The recent briefing only included “heavily redacted” documents.
Johnson said he’s “never seen this” before:
Noting that it wasn’t his “first rodeo,” Johnson recalled that redactions are normally black, blocking out certain parts of text. “These are just whiteouts.””So, I don’t know. Was it just a single word?” he asked.He said in some cases it wasn’t evident whether something had been obscured in the documents or not due to the white redactions.”That’s the level of opacity that we’re getting in terms of their lack of cooperation with our investigation,” Johnson added.
I imagine the senators have even more urgency and frustrations since Trump faced another attempt in Florida.
Thank goodness a USSS agent noticed Ryan Routh’s gun and thwarted any attempt on Trump’s life.
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