Secret Service agents specifically instructed by headquarters in Washington not to ask any more protection for the backyard rally where a shooter wounded the former leader, and that if they did, it would be denied.
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A journalist contacted Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, who wrote to acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe to describe the “apparent disagreement” in Rowe’s Senate evidence. Rowe claimed last month to the Senate Judiciary Committee that no sources have ever been denied.
” You must discuss this apparent paradox immediately”, the legislator wrote.
After the death test, the Secret Service has been backpedaling since day one, trying to downplay the obvious lack of resources for an outdoor celebration with protected houses close to their protection.
What else will they get if they continue to dig than most people had predicted, according to Hawley’s email?
The journalist claimed that Secret Service employees instructed Butler campaign event organizers to forgo requests for additional security through formal manpower requests, which are normally made by guide advance agents prior to trips and delivered to the nearby field office, in this case, Pittsburgh.
The Secret Service’s Office of Protective Operations – Manpower is given last access to the request, which includes the number of security personnel and various requested information.
The Secret Service was “effectively denying these resources through informal means… through… [a ] allegedly informing brokers not to ask for more stability in the proper demand,” Hawley (R-Mo. ) claimed. claimed in the email to Rowe.
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Because brokers on the ground were instructed not to ask for them in the first place, Hawley said,” the labor demand did not include additional security sources.”
The additional resources requested included” counter-sniper teams — which were ultimately approved a day before the event”, which security experts say did n’t give the CSDs enough time to scout the grounds  , —” and counter-surveillance division]CSD] personnel, who were not at the rally”, according to the Post.
The gunman was spotted with a rangefinder in the parking lot, according to Hawley, but personnel from CSD were not present on the day.
Could Donald Trump have been a target of this complacency in the Secret Service?  ,
The lead agent in Trump’s detail submitted a manpower request to the  , U. S. Secret Service Office of Protective Operations ( OPO-Manpower ) for final approval,
According to the allegations,” staffers within this office preemptively informed the Pittsburgh Field Office that the Butler rally was not going to receive additional security resources because Trump is a former president and not the incumbent president or vice president,” Hawley writes in the letter.
You claimed in a press conference on August 2 that former presidents ‘ “details” are supported when requested by CSD personnel. However, these new allegations point to the fact that Secret Service officials told the requesting agents that they would not be allowed to use CSD personnel, counter-sniper teams, and other important security assets.
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” If you’re talking about Butler, Penn., all assets requested were approved”. Rowe has claimed that he has been “very transparent and forthcoming” with Congress.  ,
If so, why do we keep getting details that defy the account of what actually happened that day according to your agency?
