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Her interview with congress was painful to watch. It is a mystery how she even got the job based on her answers
Yeah, which is kind of surprising if you look at her Wikipedia, she had plenty of experience within the secret service. I guess this is just a case of being promoted beyond your competence level, as I assume there's a huge difference between doing the work as a secret service agent and being able to properly deal with the politics of Congress.
And I guess she's ultimately responsible for whatever oversight caused them to allow someone with a rifle to get onto a roof 100m from a presidential candidate, whether that's due to hiring, procedural issues or just general lack of oversight.
To me, the local PD seems to have plenty of fault. (Surprised she didn't throw them under the bus.) The shooter's on top of a building, outside of SS perimeter. And incredibly, it's literally full of local PD, apparently emergency response (SWAT).
There seems to have been severe communication issues from all involved: Knew of suspect for hour, lost him, searched, finally checked roof, too late. SS sniper seems to have had him in sights, but did not shoot until after (perhaps thought he could be local PD). They all deserve blame for the almost comedy of errors. I think the wind might've done more to prevent the assassination.
Yeah but the buck doesn't stop at the local PD, if the local PD aren't handling their end of things properly it's the secret services job to notice that, and either correct it themselves or not let the person they're protecting go out in an improperly secured area.
Agreed. Just saying they definitely deserve some blame. (And the BS their local DA has been saying is annoying at best.) The simplest thing should have been to delay or postpone the event. But I imagine they almost always have "people of interest" at events, and (somehow) never did see a gun or weapon.