By F. Andrew Wolf, Jr. ——Bio and Archives--July 18, 2024

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The Secret Service explains the failure to secure the building roof used by the sniper to fire at former President Trump. Agency director Kimberly Cheatle has cited “workplace safety concerns” as a basis for not securing the building.

Kimberly Cheatle, the head of the US Secret Service, has claimed safety concerns prevented her agents from deploying on the roof of the building from which a would-be assassin targeted Donald Trump.

Moreover, the Secret Service spokesperson claimed that the building from which Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire was outside the designated main security perimeter and thus under local law enforcement jurisdiction, but over which the Secret Service has ultimate responsibility for determining who does what and when.

Yet, what is even more troubling is that within seconds of Crooks firing his weapon, Secret Service snipers, identified, shot and killed the would-be assassin. With the latter’s demise, interrogation and thus important information about Crooks--his reasons, potential accomplices and/or money and power behind the attempted assassination will never be forthcoming.

It isn’t as though we haven't seen this before. Lee Harvey Oswald took whatever information he had about the Kennedy assassination with him because he was killed shortly after the president was. Moreover, the Warren Commission did not entertain any such ideas or possibilities which are today being widely discussed outside the sphere of “conspiracy theories.”

Unfortunately, the truth (and potentially the most important aspects of it) essentially died with the assassin – again

The former president narrowly escaped death during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday when a lone gunman fired several shots at Trump. His Secret Service detail reacted after a bullet nicked his right ear. One rallygoer was killed and two........

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