The Secret Service, according to an independent panel, has become complacent and static.
You know it was a rough report when it was commissioned by Mayorkas and the DHS and then reported on by CNN.
The independent panel made up of law enforcement personnel, including Bush and Obama appointees, and others appointed by the DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,
[R]ecommended a complete overhaul of Secret Service leadership after reviewing the agency's security failures that led to the near assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania this summer.
In one of the most scathing reviews of the agency to date, the panel lambasted the Secret Service for its culture of 'do more with less' and the general lack of 'critical thinking' that permeated agents during and in the lead up to the Butler rally where Trump was shot and one rallygoer was killed.
Translation: The Secret Service has a culture of laziness and idiocy.
The Secret Service didn't use their resources properly and didn't plan well before the Butler rally. And let's be real, this is indicative of a bad culture at the SS.
More from the panel:
'The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static even though risks have multiplied and technology has evolved,' the panel wrote in its report released Wednesday.
The panel ... recommended leadership in the agency be replaced with outside individuals who could change the culture of the Secret Service, including the 'present sense of complacency within the Service.'
Yep. Bush and Obama folks saw the Butler failure and decided together that the Secret Service sucks, has bad leadership, and needs to clean house and appoint entirely new leadership.
They don't want them to do the normal government thing and promote from within, since the current leadership has so corrupted the SS culture.
Now, the SS chief, Kimberly Cheatle has already resigned, so this recommendation is for leadership as a whole.
Remember, this is what CNN is telling us about the report. They're telling their readers that the SS completely failed.
The report heavily criticized the agency for failing to properly secure the Butler rally site, including by not establishing line-of-sight blockades, not securing the group of buildings the shooter accessed, not responding to reports of the shooter as a suspicious person over an hour before Trump was shot, and a myriad of other failures from the agency and local law enforcement.
These failures, the panel said, were part of a lack of critical thinking among Secret Service personnel responsible for security that day.
Furthermore, the panel slammed the Secret Service because they are still, to this day, not ramping up Trump's security even after the multiple threats against Trump from Iran. The panel says that the SS isn't taking it seriously at all.
Here we have yet another excuse to fire the DHS head, Mayorkas. He oversees the SS and it deteriorated under his watch.
That and the millions of illegal aliens he's let in.
But Mayorkas [shocker] doesn't seem to be taking the report too seriously.
Mayorkas said he would review the panel's finding but added in a statement he has 'the utmost confidence in the men and women of the United States Secret Service' and commended Rowe (current acting leader) 'for his leadership and for proactively undertaking security enhancements, including those informed by the Secret Service's Internal Mission Assurance Review.'
The Secret Service allowed an assassin to get a shot off on a former president during a rally and then they failed to capture a second would-be assassin who was caught instead by Florida sheriffs.
And to Mayorkas this is an awesome success?!?
'The site agent assigned by the Trump detail to coordinate with the Pittsburgh field office to conduct site advance work and site security planning for the Butler rally only graduated from the Service's academy in 2020,' the panel noted, 'had only been on the Trump detail since 2023, and had engaged in minimal previous site advance work or site security planning and certainly nothing to the level of the July 13 Butler rally.'
The panel also addressed communication failures during the Butler rally between the Secret Service and local law enforcement officers who reported the shooter's movements and suspicious activities - like looking at the stage with a range finder - throughout the day.
An utter disaster!
It's clear that the Service needs to be completely revamped.
Here's some more reporting from CNN if you'd like to watch:
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