The Secret Service director and other officials face pressure to explain if mistakes in planning may have allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to open fire.
By Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti, The Washington PostU.S. Secret Service agents and counter assault team members respond after shots were fired toward former president Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pa.
Mayorkas, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other Biden administration officials face pressure to explain whether mistakes in security planning for Trump’s rally might have allowed 20-year-old Johnson said he spoke to Mayorkas hours after the attack and pressed the DHS secretary to explain why the Secret Service wasn’t using surveillance drones to monitor the rally from above. “Where were the drones?,” Johnson said, speaking on the Brian Kilmeade show. “You would have obviously seen someone on a rooftop.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan and ranking member Jerry Nadler were briefed Monday morning by FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate. Those briefings have been described as preliminary.
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