One year after the Trump assassination attempt, the changes in the American Secret Service, but the questions remain

In many ways, the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in a campaign in Pennsylvania was an ideal storm of failures that combine Michael Thomas Crocs, a 20 -year -old climbing over a nearby building and taking eight shots on the American president once and future.

One of the attendees was killed, two others were wounded and a Trump bullet sponsored and killed and killed the fraudsters. On that day, he actually shook a messy race for the White House and the good position of Trump’s icon in his party and beyond.

It has also become a turning point for the agency in charge of protecting the president. With more details about the error that happened, questions have multiplied: What happened to plan the secret service? Why did you leave the surface with a clear line of sight for Trump without guarding? What paid the shooter?

Another incident in September, when a militants chopped in the bushes outside a golf field in Trump before being monitored and shot by a secret service agent who also raised questions about the agency’s performance.

A year after Petrler, multiple investigations detailed breakdowns that day. Under a new leader that Trump rented, the agency was pushing to address these problems, but the main questions remain.

“This was an invitation to wake up for secret service,” said Bobby McDonald, retired supervisory undersecretary Bobby McDonald, and is now

Here’s a look at the error that happened, what was done to address problems and questions that are still unanswered.

How did he get this ceiling? Who was talking to whom?

All investigations were issued in some specific problems.

The building in Bater, Pennsylvania, with a clear vision line on the stage that the president was speaking only 135 meters left without guarding. The fraudsters eventually reinforced the same and fired eight shots with a rifle similar to the AR.

The achievement of the secret service in its agency said that the risks of the vision line were not early. This was that many employees evaluated them as “acceptable”.

The supervisors expected that there would be large pieces of agricultural equipment to prevent the view from the building. The report said that those who were not eventually developed, and the employees who visited the site before the assembly did not tell the supervisors that the concerns related to the vision line were not addressed.

Another blatant problem: the divided communications between the secret service and the local law enforcement on which the agency relies regularly to secure events.

Instead of having a unified publication with representatives from each agency that provides security in the same room, there were two leadership publications in the assembly. One of the investigations described a “messy mixture” of radio, mobile phone, text and email used to communicate that day.

“Ensure that such an event cannot be repeated.”

The Secret Service issued a report on Thursday about what it did to address the problems in Bater.

“Since President Trump appointed me as director of the US Secret Service, I maintained my experience on July 13, and the agency has taken many steps to ensure that such an event was not repeated in the future,” said Sean Corne, who cost Trump. Koran was one of the agents standing next to Trump as he was leaving the stage after the shooting.

The agency said it had implemented 21 out of 46 recommendations by congressional control bodies. The rest was in progress or did not reach the agency for implementation.

Some of what they did include new equipment and a greater focus on treating threats from above. They have created a new flight section to oversee air operations such as drones. The agency said it has two armored ATVS to use in golf courses and produces three others. They buy mobile driving vehicles that will be placed in advance throughout the country.

But many of what the agency says is related to changing policies and procedures to address these lapses on July 13-things such as reviewing their guide to “advanced procedures and communication practices” when it comes to coordination with local law enforcement or clarification from those responsible for the events in which protection appears.

They updated their procedures about documenting the vision line fears and how these concerns will be addressed.

Until now, no one has been launched or will be dismissed, although the agency manager at the time, Kim fraud, resigned quickly.

The agency said on Thursday that six employees had been accompanied by comments ranging from 10 to 42 days without pay,; The six are placed on the restricted duty or the non -operating positions. Their identities and attitudes were not released.

We still do not know

In many ways, the fraudsters and its motives are still a mystery.

He was killed by a secret anti -spirit service and left not much information about why he did what he did. Investigators say they believe that he is behaving alone and did not find any threatened comments or ideological positions on social media that highlight his thinking.

Although it is clear what happened in Bater, the questions remain about how the things that were clearly problematic – such an open ceiling – were not eaten early.

Anthony Kanjelusi, the former secret service agent who is now a lecturer at John Jae College of Criminal Justice in New York City. A year later, he is still struggling with the error of many things.

“I cannot understand the number of errors made on that site on that day,” he said. “If they agreed to leave this ceiling, not busy, I can’t … understand it to me.”

Corie Corraooror, who died during an assassination attempt to Berler, chanted some of these feelings during an interview with Fox News this week.

“Why was this failure? Why didn’t they notice? Why did they think this ceiling did not need (to be)? I want to sit and talk to them,” said Helen Compleuer.

Kanjelusi said he was still wondering whether the agency had asked the additional employees to cover a crowded electoral year and if they did so, whether these requests were granted. He believes that the secret service needs a better payment to keep the agents to leave the agency to other federal government jobs.

McDonald said he was suspected of being part of the problem before Bater gathering is that the secret service may have had difficulty understanding that Trump’s protection was not the same for the other former presidents.

He said that he “baffles the mind” how Crocs managed to obtain this ceiling and said that “communication” and “contentment with consent” are the two issues that they believed were really wrong in Battler.

But he also said that he feels that the agency was moving in the right direction. He said: “Many good people do a good job there, and I hope they will continue to move in the right direction.”