President Biden on Sunday announced an FBI investigation into the Secret Service’s astounding failure to protect Donald Trump at the rally in Butler, Pa., promising the probe would be “thorough and swift.”
But it’s folly to trust a federal law enforcement agency to obliterate interagency niceties by exposing all the foibles and flubs of fellow G-men.
Instead, we’ll likely see a vintage DC investigation along these lines: Please tell us if you screwed up. Also, is there someone else we can blame?
Congress is jumping on the Secret Service’s Butler debacle, asserting its own right to investigate the assassination bid.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has directed Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle to “preserve all documents” tied to the Trump shooting, and Cheatle could take a high-profile hammering before Comer’s committee next week.
Meanwhile, Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Tex.), citing a lack of “faith in the current FBI leadership,” is calling for a select House committee to look into the Secret Service’s mess, joined by Rep. Jim Banks (R-In.), while Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) announced plans for a bipartisan Senate investigation.
Yet the White House is telling Americans to blindly trust an agency whose acronym is now widely presumed to stand for Following Biden’s Instructions.
This is the same FBI that kowtowed when Team Biden wanted parents who protested school closures and mask mandates at school board meetings to be categorized as terrorist threats.
An FBI analysis in 2023 recommended targeting conservative Catholics as potential violent extremists, citing nine “radical-traditionalist Catholic” organizations as “hate groups.” Twenty state attorneys general denounced the Bureau for effectively claiming that it could “distinguish the bad Catholics from the good ones” based on their “preference for ‘the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-Vatican teachings.’” --->READ MORE HERE
There will be one key question lawmakers will seek to answer next week as they probe the near-assassination of former President Trump, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told The Post.
“The fundamental question is, why wasn’t that rooftop secure,” Jordan said. “That’s a fundamental question that needs to be answered.”
Jordan who heads the House Judiciary Committee, said FBI Director Christopher Wray will be called on the carpet to testify before Congress next week about the attempted assassination on July 13 at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa.
The FBI is leading the investigation into shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, whose motive remains a mystery.
As a member of the House Oversight Committee, Jordan also will play a leading role of their separate probe into the Secret Service, which has been accused of ignoring red flags which allowed Crooks, 20, to get on top of the rooftop 130 yards away from Trump.
Jordan himself dodged the question of whether he believed the Secret Service was currently providing Trump adequate protection.
“I certainly hope so,” he said, adding he plans to probe allegations that Team Trump’s requests for additional security had been rejected by the agency — which the Secret Service has vigorously denied. --->READ MORE HERE
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