‘Don’t Try To Bully Me!’: GOP Rep, Secret Service Director Have Screaming Match Over 9/11 Event At Hearing
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4 MAJOR cover-ups Kash Patel would EXPOSE as FBI director
Intelligence community veteran Kash Patel, whom Donald Trump has tapped to replace Christopher Wray as the next FBI director, is going to flip the agency on its head with his plans to declassify documents that have long been kept secret.
Glenn Beck, who interviewed Patel last year, lists four cover-ups he believes Patel would expose as the next director of the FBI.
1. The Epstein list
“Who has Jeffery Epstein’s black book?” Glenn asked in the interview.
“The FBI,” Patel stated bluntly before clarifying that it’s specifically “under direct control of the director of the FBI.”
“All these local law enforcement communities get funding from the DOJ and FBI for local programs, and if you don't cooperate, you're not getting your million dollars. ...That's how they play the game. That's why you don't have the black book,” he added.
“On day one [of Trump’s second term], roll out the black book,” he said.
2. The January 6 pipe bombs
In regard to the still-missing J6 pipe bomber, who was captured on CCTV cameras, Patel says, "Release all of the footage."
“On day one, play the rest of the video of the pipe bomber,” he told Glenn, reiterating that we “need a central node to be continuously declassifying.”
“I'm telling you as the former number two in the [intelligence community], they over-classify 50% of the stuff there to protect the Deep State.”
3. The 'deleted' J6 text messages
Patel told Glenn that he is also in favor of releasing the mysteriously deleted text messages between Secret Service agents surrounding the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
“On day one, roll out all of the text messaging communications we were told were deleted,” he said.
4. Russiagate
“We still haven’t seen half of the Russiagate report that we wrote. It’s still under lock and key,” Patel told Glenn.
“We put 10,000 man hours against John Brennan’s team that did it, and we found out why they came up with their bogus conclusion, but we couldn't sell it to the world because we couldn't talk about it, and the government gangsters came in and buried it,” he explained.
Needless to say, Glenn is excited for Kash Patel to head the FBI.
To hear Glenn’s commentary on Kash Patel and what he hopes he will achieve in the role of FBI director, watch the clip above.
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Dem rep becomes first to join forces with GOP in House DOGE caucus
Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida became the first Democrat to join the bipartisan House DOGE caucus on Tuesday.
The DOGE caucus was formed after President-elect Donald Trump announced the new Department of Government Efficiency, which former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamay and tech mogul Elon Musk would be leading in the incoming administration. Although the House caucus has solely consisted of Republicans until this point, Moskowitz expressed that government efficiency "should not be a partisan issue."
'The Caucus should look at the bureaucracy that DHS has become and include recommendations to make Secret Service and FEMA independent federal agencies with a direct report to the White House.'
"Today, I will join the Congressional DOGE Caucus, because I believe that streamlining government processes and reducing ineffective government spending should not be a partisan issue," Moskowitz said in a Tuesday statement. "I've been clear that there are ways we can reorganize our government to make it work better for the American people."
Moskowitz specifically pointed to the DHS and the many federal agencies under its purview, including FEMA and the Secret Service.
"Specifically, the Department of Homeland Security, while very necessary, has gotten too big," Moskowitz continued. "The Caucus should look at the bureaucracy that DHS has become and include recommendations to make Secret Service and FEMA independent federal agencies with a direct report to the White House."
Both federal agencies have been under severe scrutiny over the last few months. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been critical of the Secret Service following the first assassination attempt against Trump back in July. FEMA also received backlash in November after reports revealed that agency officials directed employees to skip houses devastated by Hurricane Milton in Florida if they had visible pro-Trump displays and signs.
"It is not practical to have 22 agencies under this one department," Moskowitz continued. "I look forward to working in a bipartisan manner with my colleagues to remove FEMA and Secret Service from DHS."
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Why Did DOJ Wait 4 Months To Indict The Would-Be Assassin Of The Judge Who Shut Down Its ‘Get Trump’ Case?
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa wants to know why the DOJ took four months to indict Judge Cannon's would-be assassin.Task Force Details ‘Stunning Security Failures’ That Led To Attempted Trump Assassination In New Report
The report shows multiple security lapses and communication failures.Assassination attempt 'will happen again' if Secret Service doesn't get new leadership, panel says
The U.S. Secret Service needs a new leadership team with significant experience from outside the agency in order to address a long list of critical failures laid bare by the nearly successful attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, a review panel recommends.
A four-member investigation group appointed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas restated many of the weaknesses identified by other investigators since the July 13 assassination attempt. The group said the Secret Service needs a new director and leadership team to address everything from risk-based threat assessment to the lack of critical thinking by personnel.
Among the most shocking aspects of the attempted assassination was how easy it was for a young man barely out of his teens to defeat what was supposed to be world-class security.
“The Secret Service as an agency requires fundamental reform to carry out its mission,” the panel wrote in a letter to Mayorkas. “Without that reform, the Independent Review Panel believes another Butler can and will happen again.”
The Independent Review Panel said the Secret Service “does not perform at the elite levels needed to discharge its critical mission.”
“The Secret Service has become bureaucratic, complacent, and static even though risks have multiplied and technology has evolved,” the panel wrote. “The work of the Independent Review Panel uncovered not only numerous mistakes that led to the events of July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, but also deeper, systemic issues that must be addressed with urgency.”
The 52-page document released Oct. 17 is the first final report from the nearly dozen probes under way in Congress, the FBI, the DHS Office of Inspector General, and other groups. Members include Janet Napolitano, DHS secretary under President Barack Obama; Mark Filip, a former federal judge and deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush; Frances Townsend, former Homeland Security adviser to President Bush; and David Mitchell, former superintendent of the Maryland State Police.
‘With striking ease’
The panel conducted 58 multi-hour interviews, surveyed the Butler Farm Show Inc. site, and amassed some 7,000 documents.
Among the most shocking aspects of the attempted assassination was how easy it was for a young man barely out of his teens to defeat what was supposed to be world-class security.
“The July 13 assassination attempt was not the work of a trained foreign adversary prepared to conduct a multi-dimensional attack and willing to sacrifice themselves in the process,” the report said.
“Rather, a young, local Pennsylvania man who had seemingly conceived of and executed his assassination plot within days after the former president’s rally was publicly announced had managed, with striking ease, to circumvent the Secret Service’s ‘no fail’ protective mission.”
Would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto the American Glass Research roof just after 6 p.m. July 13 and ran the length of the complex until he reached Building 6, where he made his sniper’s nest.
A Pennsylvania State Police trooper saw Crooks running on the roof and broadcast a warning on police radio, but Secret Service officials said they never heard it. Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said the first indication of a threat came when Crooks unleashed the first of eight shots from an AR-15 rifle.
A SWAT team operator — Sgt. Aaron M. Zaliponi of the Adams Township Police Department — stopped Crooks’ attack when he shot and damaged the buttstock on his rifle. A short time later, a Secret Service counter-sniper killed Crooks before he could attempt any more gunplay.
Trump was struck in the ear by the first shot. Other rounds killed volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore and seriously wounded David Dutch and James Copenhaver. Overall 10 people were injured during the tragedy, including seven law enforcement personnel and one Secret Service agent, the report said.
Major blunders by the Secret Service included failing to secure the rooftops in the AGR complex 130 yards north of the event stage and not taking steps to prevent the gunman’s direct line of sight to the former president, the report said.
Lack of effective communication between the Secret Service and state and local law enforcement agencies helped Crooks escape early detection and prevented Trump’s protective detail from removing him from the stage or even preventing him from appearing at the podium, the report concluded.
The Butler County Emergency Services Unit set aside pre-programmed radios for use by various Secret Service personnel — including counter-sniper teams — but the radios sat untouched.
The panel recommended that the Secret Service work in the same command center as local law enforcement instead of the separate accommodations used in Butler “with the integration of a real-time incident command management system.”
The failure to have counter-drones in the air during a “critical period of time when it could have detected Crooks operating a drone” indicates a “deeper concern” by the panel “regarding a general lack of technology to support the Secret Service’s protective mission.”
The Secret Service did not have drone coverage through most of the day. Crooks surveilled parts of the site with his own drone, starting at about 3:50 p.m. and running for about 11 minutes, the FBI has said. Security experts told Blaze News that Crooks was likely checking his planned route to ensure that conditions had not changed since he first surveilled the site.
An inexperienced Secret Service staff member could not get the counter-drone system working and ended up repeatedly calling technical support for the drone manufacturer, according to the House Task Force to Investigate the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump.
The Independent Review Panel recommended “a mandate that all outdoor events are observed by overhead technology.”
Changes to site security planning should include better identification of line-of-sight threats and “significant training” on how to use a risk-based threat identification system rather than basing resource decisions on a protectee’s title, the report said.
The panel said a clean sweep needs to be made of top leadership of the Secret Service, with a new director coming from outside the agency. This will help address systemic or cultural issues that show in a lack of critical thinking, a lack of ownership for site planning and other issues, and the need for extensive training.
The group also recommended some internal reorganization to place an emphasis on the Secret Service’s protective mission as opposed to investigative or other functions.
The panel said that while additions to the Secret Service’s $3.1 billion budget “would be helpful,” the focus should first involve “dialogue around the failures of July 13” or the “critical lessons from July 13 will have been lost.”
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