The Secret Service director and other officials face pressure to explain if mistakes in planning may have allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to open fire.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke on CNN on July 15 about a shooting at former president Donald Trump's campaign rally. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump was a security “failure,” but he stopped short of assigning blame or explaining how the incident would be investigated amid deepening scrutiny of the U.S. Secret Service.“An incident like this cannot happen,” Mayorkas said.
The House Oversight committee will receive a briefing on the assassination attempt Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the planning. “Somebody’s got to head up this investigation as quickly as possible,” Panetta, now a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, said in a telephone interview. “We’re not at the end of a political campaign, we’re at the beginning of a political campaign. We’ve got to quickly learn what went wrong and make sure that we’ve corrected it.”
Bratton praised the Secret Service agents who protected Trump during the attack. But he said the agency’s preparations before the rally appear “deficient” and “not the Secret Service’s finest hour.”“Nobody is questioning the bravery and the actions after the event began to unfold, the Secret Service putting their bodies between the sniper and the president,” he said. “It’s the run-up that’s really going to be the focus.
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