The lack of an instant communication line between locals and SS is unbelievable. They should have been able to communicate immediately when they got the call someone was on the roof. Incompetence at its highest level.
I saw one former LE sniper that has worked with SS in the past that was shocked that the sniper/sniper face to face didn't occur on the day of the rally. He said it was SOP for the SS to give each sniper team a SS radio and the LE to give the SS one of theirs.
Not a conspiracy guy, but you have to wonder. They also had someone on there that predicted another attempt between now and Election Day.
I'm not ready to don the foil cap yet but based on the experts I've heard and also talking with my BIL who is retired AF and worked 3 POTUS visits to air bases, this many errors is virtually impossible. My BIL said it just to regimented as well as having redundancy on top of redundancy for things to get missed. For example, he mentioned that once a building is scanned and declared clear, nobody gets into or onto that building and if there is a failure, you know immediately who was manning the post and failed.
It certainly looks that way, the impossibility of it all happening that is.
The problem is they've already been caught in lies and or misinformation that should have never occurred. (SS spokesman denying reports of Trump being denied additionally SS protection/Wray's fragment/shrapnel BS)
A lot of truth in what you said but I think the issue is leaving multiple wide open shooting perches and failing to secure access to these perches is how they've always done things. I also highly doubt that using local and state LE as part of the security plan without having coms that could heard by the other agencies in some manner was SOP. I mean an imbecile could have figured out that having one local guy with a radio in the command center could have gotten gun, gun gun out to everyone within a couple of seconds. It's not like you had a few rednecks show up trying to figure out how to secure a perimeter for the first time.
How it’s been handled afterwards is about as bad.
One senator did ask if leaving him under-protected, refusing to protect RFK Jr and pulling the protection of Robert O'Brien was a political decision. I don't think we're quite to coordinated effort to take him out as in a fed official setting up a patsy but at least questions are being asked about decisions that were made to leave Dem opponents vulnerable.
