Ahead of Attempt to murder A year ago, Butler, on President Trump in Pennsylvania, the US Secret Service denied several requests from Mr. Trump’s secret service details to increase his security system during its 2024 President’s President’s President’s Report on Sunday.
The Senate Committee report on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs found that the Secret Service “refused” in detail of Shri Trump for “additional resources” or left at least 10 requests “, which included a extended counter drone system, counter assault team personnel and counter snipers.
On July 13, 2024, a 20 -year -old gunman set fire to Sri Trump from the roof of the nearby building during an expedition rally at Butler. The President was taken to the ear from one of the bullets, while a rally was killed and two others were seriously injured in the shooting. Gunman, Thomas Crook was shot dead by secret service snipers. The incident inspired many investigations In Practices and protocols of secret service.
“This report reveals a disturbing pattern of communication failures and negligence, which ended in a stopped tragedy,” wrote in the report by Sen Rand Paul, chairman of the Republican and Senate Homeland Security Committee in Kentki. “What happened was incompetent and so far the results made for failures do not reflect the severity of the situation.”
In the report, Kimberly Chital, director of the then Secret Service, testified to the Congress, saying that “no USSS asset requests were denied for the Butler rally.” Chital resigned about a year ago after testifying to the Congress.
Secret Service Chief Counsel Richard Giuditta Jr. told the committee that there was no evidence that “political anims” was behind refusal, it was written in the report.
Especially about the Butler rally, the committee did not find that there was a “clear refusal” for the extended counter drone system. However, in a transmitted interview for the committee, the aircraft system agent with a secret service counter-Nman alleged that such a request was refused by a Secret Service Technical Security Division Advance Agent via the phone, the report said.
That refusal was confirmed by secret service documents, found in the report.
This will appear contrary to the previous testimony from the then-Gupta Seva Acting Director Ronald Rowe, who replaced the Chital in the post. During a controversial, hearing on 30 July 2024, hearing Prior to the Senate Homeland Security and Judicry Committees, Rowe testified that the Butler rally was “requested all properties”.
Rowe, however, also testified about requests for assets other than Butler: “There are times when the property was unavailable and could not be filled, and those intervals were placed with employees with state and local law enforcement strategic property.”
Furthermore, the new report found that, before the shooter shooting, the Secret Service had no formal process to present the resource requests, and “therefore there was no standard response to the approval or denial of such requests from the USS Headquarters.”
The documents received by the committee “revealed a pattern of some categories of requests, either the local law enforcement or need to be supplemented by other federal agencies either rejected, incomplete, or necessary,” the report states.
In a statement, Sean Curan, director of Secret Service, said the agency “took a serious look at our operation and implemented significant reforms to remove the failures that occur that day.”
A “possibility of lack of structured communication was the biggest contributor to failures” for secret service in Butler, it is said in the report Previous 180-Page House Report Issued Last December On the attempt to murder, it was found that Butler had “fragmented communication” as there were separate command posts in local law enforcement and secret service.
According to the findings of the Senate Committee, the Secret Service Agent worked with the major communication in Butler – a role known as the “safety room agent” – Buffalo, New York, was a special agent as a special agent of the Field Office, and was handed over the role of Butler on July 11, 2024 only two days before the rally.
The agent “only discovered the existence of the second command post”, when he heard the conversation between a Pennsylvania State Police Officer, who was posted in the Command Post and other law enforcement of the Secret Service.
The report said, “With his own entry, he did not have a direct contact with local law enforcement throughout the day, and the only way to communicate with them was through the PSP officer in the USSSS Safety Room.”
The report also addressed the announcement this week that six secret service personnel Was suspended After an internal investigation in Butler shooting reaction. Suspension of 10 to 42 days was issued to six personnel without salary or profit.
However, the Senate Committee investigation found that the security room agent in Butler was not among those disciplined people, even if the report writes, “According to the testimony and documents received by the committee,” he “failed to relay the important information obtained from the Pennsylvania State Police Officer” “he” posted in the command post of “Secret Service”.
In a statement to CBS News, the director of the US Secret Service Sean Curan said that his agency received the report “and would continue to work cooperatively with the committee as we move forward in our mission.”
“After the incidents of July 13, the Secret Service took a serious look at our operation and implemented concrete reforms to address the failures that occur that day,” Curan said. “Secret Service praises President Trump, Congress and our constant support from our federal and local partners, who play an important role in providing important resources necessary to support the efforts of the agency.”
Earlier this week, meanwhile, CBS News Was taken inside In response to Butler’s response to the agency’s security reforms, James J of Secret Service in Laurel, Maryland. Rovale Training Center, which includes a fleet of military-grade drones and a system of mobile command posts.
Nicole Sagang, Melissa Quinn and Jacob Rosen contributed to the report.
