MEAN TWEET (above): The writer is a field director for Congressman Bennie Thompson, chairman of the J6 committee. Let’s just see how long she stays employed!
Online news-aggregator Revolver.News reports the quiet part out loud: suspicious Secret Service screw-ups and official obfuscations about them have become far too frequent to be ignored by anyone.
July 14, 2024 (8 hours ago) by | Revolver.News
Yesterday’s assassination attempt on President Trump has stunned the world. We thank God that President Trump came out OK, knowing that just a few millimeters difference could have resulted in a deadly outcome.
While the profoundly unsettling event opens up a whole host of troubling questions which we will of course address here in due course, the most pressing and immediate one is how this could have happened in the first place.
How on earth could the Secret Service have screwed up so badly?
To get a sense of how bad the screw-up was (assuming it was indeed a screw up and not something more sinister) it is helpful to understand some facts.
One might at first imagine that in order for a gunman to get within shooting distance of President Trump, he must have employed sophisticated concealment methods of the sort usually reserved for spy films. Except this wasn’t the case at all. The shooter was perched on top of a building 150 yards away from where Trump was speaking.
Law enforcement experts familiar with security protocols are simply baffled that one of the few rooftops near Trump wasn’t secured, much less how a man could get up there with a rifle and have time to take a shot.
PHOTO: Even those with no security experience whatsoever can look at the image and understand that it would be a no brainer to secure the rooftop in question.
It is simply unfathomable how the secret service sniper didn’t see Trump’s would be assassin–and again, that there wouldn’t have been a Secret Service agent posted where the would be assassin was. Look at the image again and reflect on whether it makes any sense.
PHOTO: In fact, there is video of the Secret Service sniper engaging the gunman. How could he have not seen the gunman before he fired his first shot? How was the gunman able to get off eight shots before finally being taken out?
Most disturbing of all, there are direct accounts of rally goers who claim to have seen the gunman on the roof and alerted authorities, only to have their warnings fall on deaf ears. Extremely strange.
In light of this nearly unfathomable degree of incompetence, we’re forced to ask whether there isn’t something more sinister going on.
It is impossible not to engage in such dark speculation, especially given what we know (and have reported) about the Secret Service’s equally unfathomably suspicious behavior when it comes to the January 6th Pipe Bomb.
It is also quite relevant to note that the Secret Service as of 2011 belongs to the Department of Homeland Security, which happens to be the tip of the spear when it comes to the political weaponization of the national security establishment.
We have written extensively about the DHS and its dangerous behavior.
It is especially noteworthy that former Congressman Bennie Thompson has repeatedly called to revoke Trump’s Secret Service protection.
This is the same Congressman whose staffer publicly gloated about the assassination attempt yesterday.
That Bennie Thompson would be so conspicuously associated with efforts to deprive Trump of Secret Service protection is disturbing enough. This becomes still more troubling, however, when one understands just how close his association with the Secret Service actually is.
Apart from his notable roles as congressman and head of the disgraced January 6 Committee, Bennie Thompson was also the head of the Homeland Security Committee from 2009-20011, and from 20019-2023.
Essentially, whenever Democrats control congress Bennie Thompson is their connection to the Department of Homeland Security—the agency that, remember, just happens to run and control the Secret Service.
At the very least, it is fair to say that the Secret Service has been involved in a number of highly suspicious and highly politically charged events in the past several years— chief among them are yesterday’s assassination attempt and the January 6 pipe bomb hoax…
…in both of which cases the Secret Service acted with such flagrant and unfathomable incompetence that one must entertain darker explanations for their behavior.
When you add this to the fact that the Secret Service is housed within the Department of Homeland Security—arguably the most politically charged and hostile agency in government when it comes to the political weaponization of the national security state—the picture becomes darker still.