The Secret Service suspended six agents due to their conduct during the assassination attempt on then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, PA.
A year later.
A YEAR LATER. The suspension comes A YEAR LATER. From CBS News:
Matt Quinn, Secret Service deputy director, told CBS News that their penalty ranged from 10 to 42 days of leave without pay or benefits. The personnel were placed into restricted duty or roles with less operational responsibility upon their return.”We are laser-focused on fixing the root cause of the problem,” said Quinn, who defended the agency’s decision not to dismiss anyone after the security failure on July 13, 2024, in which a gunman opened fire during a campaign rally and a bullet grazed Mr. Trump’s ear. One person was killed and two others were wounded while the alleged gunman, Thomas Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.”We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” Quinn said in an interview Wednesday. “We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.””Secret Service is totally accountable for Butler,” he said. “Butler was an operational failure and we are focused today on ensuring that it never happens again.”
Quinn also told CBS News that the agency disciplined the agents “according to a federally mandated process.”
The agency has supposedly focused on the “root causes” of the failure to protect Trump at the Butler rally. (I’m interested to hear its take on the line of sight!)
The Secret Service has implemented “a new fleet of military grade drones and mobile command posts that allows agents to communicate over radio directly with local law enforcement – interoperability that didn’t exist last year.”
I’m fairly certain the agents had the opportunity to communicate with local law enforcement during the rally. Oh, look! The USSS never picked up the radios set aside for the agents.
Local law enforcement has stated on numerous occasions that the USSS never met with them prior to the rally. They never had a chance to coordinate or anything.
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