Acting Director of the US Secret Service Ronald Rowe tonight admitted the ‘weaknesses’ they demonstrated in the assassination attempt by Donald Trump on July 13th.
The internal investigation “found flaws in the planning and implementation of plans” at the agency, Rowe said at a news conference. Note that although some officers were conscientious in performing their duties, others were negligent, which implies that sanctions would be imposed. Some of the “front line” problems have been identified, but they were not reported to the hierarchy, he added.
Rowe took over as acting chief following the July 23 resignation of Kimberly Cheatle, who admitted she was responsible for the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure in decades.”
“Lack of clarity”
Some of the lessons the Agency learned from the fiasco were that there was “lack of clarity” on your part in contacts with local police while problems were also observed in transferring information from one service to another.
The former president was shot in the ear by 20-year-old Matthew Crooks, who killed one person and wounded two others at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. Crooks was killed by Secret Service agents minutes after opening fire from the roof of a building.