On Monday Sen. Josh Hawley, (R-Mo) released a whistleblower report regarding the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. The report is subtitled ‘Failures of The United States Secret Service in Connection with the Attempted Assassination of Former President Donald J. Trump’.
Most notably, the report detailed three revelations from whistleblowers which have not been reported prior to its publication on Monday.
“The lead agent responsible for the entire Butler visit, including the rally, failed a key examination during their federal law enforcement training to become a Secret Service agent,” the report said on page 2.
“Secret Service intelligence units—teams of Secret Service agents paired with state and local law enforcement to handle reports of suspicious persons—were absent from the Butler rally,” the report said on page 2.
“The hospital site where former President Trump received treatment after the shooting was poorly secured, and the hospital site agent could not answer basic questions about site security,” the report said on page 2.
The lack of federal transparency has caused investigations to turn toward whistleblowers.
“…sources with direct knowledge of Secret Service’s own internal investigation have alleged to Senator Hawley that the Department of Homeland Security is leaning on Secret Service not to comply with document requests from Congress. Instead, it has been left to courageous whistleblowers to tell the story of what really happened,” the report said on page 16.
The report began by summarizing the fateful day of July 13 followed by detailing federal agency behaviors indicative of elusion and obfuscation surrounding the attempted assassination.
“Following this catastrophic failure, the Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have all tried to evade real accountability. These agencies and their leaders have slow-walked congressional investigations, misled the American people, and shirked responsibility,” the report said on page 1.
The report went on to describe the response taken by Hawley to this federal inaction.
Hellbound and Down 