Can we trust the FBI to investigate the Secret Service?

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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hooting: Can we trust the FBI to Investigate the Secret Service? #FBI #SecretService #Assassination TOPLINE Some police officials were aware 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was lurking near a Donald Trump rally earlier this month for more than 90 minutes before he opened fire, text messages obtained by The New York Times suggest—the latest revelation about security problems ahead of the assassination attempt. The Times on Sunday published a series of text messages sent amongst a local police countersniper team, including a warning from one man who was leaving his shift and texted his colleagues at 4:26 p.m. to warn them of a man who'd parked near them and would have seen the team sitting armed inside what was supposed to be a secure building. More than an hour later, another countersniper took a photo of Crooks and told his colleagues Crooks was seen pointing a rangefinder in the direction of the rally, suggesting they tell the Secret Service about his location. Half an hour after that, at 6:11 p.m., Crooks managed to fire shots from the roof of a warehouse connected to the same building the countersnipers who’d been warned about him were inside, without any local law enforcement agents or members of the Secret Service having located him despite his being armed and within 400 feet of the former president.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Police Off the Cuff Real Crime Stories.
0:10.0	I'm your host, retired NYPD, Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:16.0	Folks, a lot of questions now are coming about the attempted assassination of former President Trump.
0:22.9	We're learning now that the shooter was spotted a full 90 minutes before the shots were fired.
0:32.4	And my dissertation here, my big question is, can we trust the FBI to investigate the Secret Service?
0:41.3	Many people, including myself, have very serious questions with this because some of these
0:47.2	new findings are not being released or found out in a timely fashion by the FBI, but by senators. This information about the 90 minutes was found out in a timely fashion by the FBI, but by senators.
0:55.1	This information about the 90 minutes was found out by Senator Chuck Grassley
1:00.7	in his inquiries to the Beaver County Emergency Service Unit,
1:06.4	who said that they found out that he was spotted through text messages in regards to law enforcement
1:14.5	text messaging between themselves.
1:17.4	So law enforcement officials investigating the assassination of former President Donald Trump
1:22.0	told lawmakers Wednesday 20 minutes passed between the time the U.S. Secret Service
1:26.3	snipers first spotted the gunman
1:28.2	on a rooftop and time shots were fired at the former president. According to several law enforcement
1:33.7	officials and lawmakers briefed on the matter, officials said the snipers spotted the suspect,
1:38.6	20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof of a building outside the security zone at the
1:43.1	rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania,
1:45.6	at 5.52 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The shooting happened at 6.12 p.m. Eastern time 20 minutes later.
1:53.8	In the days since the shooting, the Secret Service has come under scrutiny for its response to the assassination
1:59.2	attempt, and the agency's director
2:01.4	Kimberly Cheedel has been subpoenaed, as we all, she testified it was a disaster.
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