[FoxNews - liveblog] Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote on X Friday that “whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service.
“DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel,” he added, posting a letter he sent today to United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
“Whistleblowers who have direct knowledge of the event have approached my office. According to the allegations, the July 13 rally was considered to be a ‘loose’ security event. For example, detection canines were not used to monitor entry and detect threats in the usual manner,” Hawley wrote. “Individuals without proper designations were able to gain access to backstage areas. Department personnel did not appropriately police the security buffer around the podium and were also not stationed at regular intervals around the event’s security perimeter.”
“In addition, whistleblower allegations suggest the majority of DHS officials were not in fact USSS agents but instead drawn from the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). This is especially concerning given that HSI agents were unfamiliar with standard protocols typically used at these types of events, according to the allegations,” Hawley also said.
Hawley used the letter to ask Mayorkas to respond to multiple questions regarding security at the Trump campaign event.
More from the liveblog:
CONGRESS DENIED ACCESS TO CRUCIAL TRUMP PROTECTION PLAN SCREAMS 'COVER YOUR A-- MODE': EXPERT
BUTLER, Pa. — Congress was denied access to the integral Ops Report that details the protection plan for former President Trump's rally, according to a lawmaker who was at Wednesday's FBI briefing and spoke to Fox News Digital on the condition of anonymity.
Paul Mauro, an attorney and retired NYPD inspector, said the Ops Report "should detail who was supposed to cover the area of the roof that (Thomas Matthew) Crooks fired from."
"If there was no Ops Plan done, or if it didn't cover that rooftop, whoever signed off on it failed badly," Mauro said.
The detailed, written plan was in the hands of the FBI as of Thursday afternoon, according to Mauro, who said the information came from a source "I absolutely, 100% trust." The FBI declined to comment.
TRUMP SHOOTER SIGNED UP TO ATTEND RALLY A WEEK BEFORE IT HAPPENED: REPORT
A person using the name Thomas Matthew Crooks signed up on July 6 to attend the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the assassination attempt unfolded, according to ABC News.
A source familiar with the matter told the network that the individual used an encrypted email address and a cell phone number to complete the signup.
The Trump campaign reportedly announced on July 3 that the rally would be happening on July 13 in Butler.
Crooks died that day after opening fire at former President Trump.
SECRET SERVICE HAD ‘AWFUL QUICK TURN AROUND’ IN PREPARING TRUMP RALLY SITE, ORGANIZER SAYS
The president of the Butler Farm Show – where former President Trump held his rally on Saturday when the assassination attempt unfolded – tells the New York Times that Secret Service agents first visited the site less than a week before the event.
Organizers for Trump’s campaign asked to use the site in Butler on July 3 before Secret Service agents showed up to scan the area on July 8, Ken Laughlin said to the newspaper.
"It just seemed like an awful quick turn around,” he said.
Trump's rally was supposed to be held at the Butler County Airport -- but the airport was already booked out for July 13 for the Penn Township Volunteer Fire Company’s annual Mega Cruise car show, according to Stephanie Saracco, the Butler County Airport Manager.
Trump held a rally at the airport on October 31, 2020 as President.
Stacked from elsewhere on the site for ease of finding later. Courtesy of Besoeker:
[YouTube] This is a 3D illustration of the shooting in Butler, Pa. President Trump was struck on the ear by a bullet fired 400 feet away. This illustration will show where the bullets came from, where they hit and how many were injured.
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No, the FBI, USSS, and Homeland Security DO NOT get to cover this up. This was criminal negligence and possibly aiding and abetting. CUT OFF ALL FUNDS to the FBI, USSS, DHS until they comply.
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Not weighing on the scales one way or another, but the Fox liveblog llinked in the post has this from an hour ago:
FBI says social media allegations on executive attending Pennsylvania rally are false
"The allegations circulating on social media about an FBI executive and the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania are categorically false. To be clear, the person depicted is not her and she did not attend the rally. The men and women of the FBI work tirelessly and selflessly to protect others every day, and false rumors and conspiracy theories targeting these dedicated public servants are reprehensible and irresponsible. They are also dangerous and often lead to threats against them and their families. The FBI will continue to work with our partners to hold accountable anyone who makes violent threats against them or any of our colleagues in law enforcement.”
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Seriously, FBI, at this point, just because you claim anything is false, you expect us to believe you? I've pretty much reached the point where I assume ANY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL is lying. Because so often that turns out to be the case.
[TOLONEWS] Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Foreign Minister, called on the international community to eliminate the centers of ISIS and other terrorist groups in the region, during a public meeting at the ministry's headquarters.
Muttaqi, without naming any country, stated that some countries are allowing the bases of terrorist groups to operate outside of Afghanistan.
The acting Foreign Minister said: "We call on the world to eliminate the centers of ISIS and similar groups in the region, outside of Afghanistan. Why are they allowing these bases to operate? Why do they not stop those who use these groups? Why do they provide individuals and raw materials for them?"
The acting government official added that certain restrictions were put in place during the days of Muharram as special measures for the Ashura ceremonies. Muttaqi expressed satisfaction with the special measures during this year's Ashura ceremonies and emphasized that the Islamic Emirate does not differentiate between citizens.
Amir Khan Muttaqi also mentioned that some circles spread propaganda about the creation of certain restrictions in Muharram; however, some of these restrictions were considered special measures for the Ashura ceremonies.
Watch the hands, not the lips. [Free Beacon] The White House hosted anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour
…who led the triumvirate in charge of the anti-Trump pussy march in January 2017 after they drove out the Jewish team that started it. They were the ones who refused to allow any Zionist Trump protesters to participate, openly drawing a clear line between Good Progressives and liberal Zionists….
in May 2023, three years after then-candidate Joe Biden publicly disavowed the prominent Jew hater, citing her long record of anti-Israel incitement and support for boycotting the Jewish state.
Sarsour—who has compared Zionism to "white supremacy in America" and questions Israel’s right to exist—appears to have attended a White House celebration of Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim holiday that marks the end of the Ramadan fasting period. Sarsour joined around 400 others at a White House event that day, visitor logs show. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), the Squad member who also has trafficked in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and championed anti-Israel priorities in Congress, attended as well.
Sarsour’s appearance at the White House, which garnered little attention at the time, occurred just three years after the Biden campaign publicly cut ties with her over support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and long history of anti-Israel advocacy.
She is one of several well-known anti-Semites to have been hosted at the White House in recent years, visitor logs show, even as the Biden administration claims to be combating an explosion of Jew hatred across America in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 strike on Israel. Other White House partners have included the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the primary advocacy groups driving anti-Israel unrest across the country.
[NEWARAB] Various Palestinian factions from different quarters unanimously condemned on Thursday a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, in which the organisation accused Palestinian armed groups of committing war crimes on 7 October 2023.
The factions accused HRW of presenting a "misleading and biased narrative" in favour of Israel while its genocidal war on Gaza enters the tenth month.
On Wednesday, the HRW published a report in which it accused Palestinian armed factions in Gaza of allegedly committing "war crimes" during a Hamas-led surprise attack on Israeli military bases and civilian settlements within and around the Gaza envelope on 7 October.
But the report notably did not focus on the suffering and destruction suffered by the Palestinian people in Gaza by Israel's continuous attacks or prior to October 7.
HRW claimed that it spent nine months examining footage from Palestinian fighters' body cameras, mobile phones, vehicle-mounted cameras, and monitoring cameras. The rights group also claimed it examined satellite imagery and analysed dozens of audio recordings, most of which were shared on Telegram channels belonging to various armed Palestinian groups.
Five armed Palestinian groups, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the armed wing of Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, were involved in the attack against Israeli sites, the HRW alleged.
'DELIBERATELY IGNORING PALESTINIAN SUFFERING' "The HRW's report ignores details shared by the Israeli media and research institutions that denied the alleged incidents of beheading and rape, and [the report] also deliberately ignored the entity's use of the Hannibal protocol, which caused the largest number of casualties among [Israelis]," the PIJ said in a press statement shared with The New Arab.
The PIJ further said that the HRW's report reveals "its complete bias towards the Israeli occupation by deliberately ignoring the suffering of the Palestinian people before 7 October and the war of extermination and crimes against them after it, especially in the case of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel".
The PIJ stressed that it has full commitment to "adhering to the values of the Islamic religion, as evidenced by our treatment of the prisoners in our hands," and holds HRW "responsible for the lies and slander contained in its report".
"HRW encourages the Israeli occupation to commit more massacres and slaughters and continue the war of extermination against the Palestinian people," the PIJ concluded.
"The [HRW] report adopts the misleading Israeli narrative that has been proven to be false and there is no evidence for its validity, noting that it is also offensive to the Palestinian people and their struggle," the Popular Front for the Liberation, for its part, said in a press statement to TNA.
[GEO.TV] US Middle East envoy Brett McGurk was travelling to the Middle East on Thursday for consultations on the Gaza conflict, with stops planned in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, a US official said.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, had no further details on his planned discussions at this time. The United States and its allies have been trying to negotiate a Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
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Anybody investigated the issue of USA "Peace" Envoys carbon footprint?
This happened from time to time before 10/7 as well.
[GEO.TV] Polio has been detected in samples of sewage that is starting to take over Gaza in the grip of a devastating war, health authorities in the Hamas-run territory and Israel said.
The announcement came after a European activist group released a report saying the Gaza Strip is "drowning" in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of human waste and rubble from the Israel-Hamas war.
The Gaza ministry said thousands of people in crowded tent cities of war-displaced were now at risk of contracting the highly infectious disease, which can cause deformities and paralysis.
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