Jon Ossoff Questions Acting Director Of Secret Service How Events Are Staffed

At today's joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) questioned Acting Director of the Secret Service Ronald Rowe Jr. about the assassination attempt on former President Trump.

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[JeddieT]

As soon as they start with “thank you Senator for that question” we know everything after that will be non-answers, filibustering, and obfuscation.

[nickovannelly]

These excuses suck. We all know what happened that day. Plausible deniability happened.

[NealOhagan]

Put the radios in a tent and have somebody listen to all frequencies. This man is not being forthcoming

[Pamledger]

How did Crooks know that that building was not secured? Sounds like he was a patsy

[TheCowboylogic]

The Secret Service is a National Embarrassment.

[KreatorStudios]

Never thank a failure for their service

[BajatheChickenMan]

FIRE THIS MAN HE IS PART OF THE MACHINE!

[yesbutactuallyno]

No conequences for failure is the most scary thing to the lay person

[carolekelley]

This new guy is worse then the one who resigned

[bttrbrnout]

They didn't deny agents but didn't have the agent available that were requested...In other words they were denied.

[johnstoddard]

Thay care more about their jobs than doing their jobs.

[CdoggsBurpeechannel]

you'll never get that respect back....EVER

[memecats]

How do you know Secret Service lying….when their mouth is talking. 😡😡😡😡

[Anonymous-gupk]

You don't have to link communication if you just have one person with police radio in the command center who could tell secret service that there's an active threat. You don't need months of planning just to get one guy with a radio to relay vital information.

Pick a random person from a crowd of regular people and they'll come up with more effective solutions than what the Secret Service leadership seems to be capable of.

[brucekrygowski]

One of the things most baffling to the public is why there wasn’t immediate response when eye witnesses were shouting, “ he has a gun”.

[acruz]

This new so called "director" is crooked as hell, just as bad as the embarrassment he replaced. He evades questions, ducks, filibusters, blocks, is aggressive when uncalled for, (as if he is hiding something) he thinks if he says 'its our fault' that means he gets to hide everything that happened, which was a coordinated hit job. A mistake happens to everybody, 20 mistakes in a row do not happen to anybody, that's not a coincidence. It was a coordinated hit job this is why nobody was fired, cause they did as they were told, this is why he tells us NOTHING because he doesn't want anybody to know who should be questioned. To hide a crime you hide the identity of everyone who coordinated it, hide, hide, hide. That's exactly what this crook does. This was done on purpose with the Secret Service working with the FBI and Homeland Security and the biden administration coordinating and working together to kill the ex-president. This is why this guy will never tell us ANYTHING. He will talk in generalities, he will take up the time with procedure, how it works, how its supposed to work, but he will never tell us ANYTHING about that day that matters. He will hide, block, avoid, and keep congress as much IN THE DARK as he possibly can. Corrupt director, corrupt agency at the top. THANK GOD FOR WHISTLE BLOWERS who are disgusted with these criminals running the agency.

[dantediss]

Who exactly do you hold accountable in a Government Sanctioned and approved Assassination attempt ?

[TheFryetube]

Why is it so hard to understand...communication between the local, state and federal folks should have been seamless.

[tomf]

The only thing that stopped this attempt was Trump turning his head. Everything else is CYA.

[steveduncan]

They thought the dad aimer would hit when they gave him the break to shoot. It was all planned and just had the wrong shooter. Now they have to cover it up because they won't be able to use that plan again.