The Secret Service’s alarming failures are being exposed after Donald Trump was shot.
But the problems at the agency could go back further than anyone realized.
And a watchdog exposed one bombshell report that put the Secret Service director on edge.
The Secret Service’s problems could date back more than a decade
The spotlight has been on the Secret Service since former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Gross incompetence by the agency was exposed more than a decade ago.
A gunman managed to fire at least seven shots into the second floor of the White House in 2011.
Former President Barack Obama was traveling abroad at the time and former First Lady Michelle Obama and their children were staying with their mother.
It took the Secret Service four days to discover that someone had opened fire on the White House.
The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General wrote in a 2016 report that the agency didn’t learn any lessons from the 2011 White House shooting.
“The Secret Service did not identify best practices and lessons learned from the 2011 White House shooting incident,” the Inspector General wrote.
Another report is on the way about the Secret Service
The Homeland Security Inspector General – the department’s internal watchdog – is putting together another report about the Secret Service’s failures.
Just the News reported that members of Congress were briefed that the Inspector General warned Secret Service leadership months before the Butler rally about serious flaws with its security for protectees.
Homeland Security Department Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari made the report in response to January 6.
Secret Service leaders and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have been pressing Cuffari to redact major sections of the report.
Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) is willing to issue a subpoena to get the unredacted report released.
“We need to get this … report. We need to see it,” Loudermilk told the John Solomon Reports podcast. “And it needs to happen soon because we just created a task force to look at it. And … I think there’s important information there.”
Sources told Just the News the report gave detailed recommendations in April to former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle – who resigned in disgrace after Trump was shot.
The report found that Secret Service agents never found the pipe bomb that was placed outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee on the morning of January 6, 2021.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris walked right by the pipe bomb that day.
One of the findings in the report was that the Secret Service needed better communications with other law enforcement groups.
The Secret Service admitted to multiple communications failures with local law enforcement in Butler, Pennsylvania, before and during the Trump rally.
A SWAT team sniper with local police told ABC News that he never talked to the agency until Trump was shot.
The Secret Service reportedly rebuffed the changes that the Inspector General’s report recommended in April.
Problems at the agency could be deeper and going for longer than anyone ever realized.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
