According to a whistleblower report, the Secret Service denied drone technology from local law enforcement during Donald Trump’s July 13th rally in Butler, PA. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) shared the info in a letter to Alejandro Mayorkas.
“The night before the rally, US Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally,” Hawley wrote to Mayorkas citing the whistleblower.
“This means that the technology was both available to USSS and able to be deployed to secure the site. Secret Service said no. The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, USSS changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack,” Hawley continued.
“It is hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered, particularly given the fact USSS permitted the shooter to overfly the rally area with his own drone mere hours before event. The failure to deploy drone technology is all the more concerning since, according to the whistleblower, the drones USSS was offered had the capability not only to identify active shooters but also to help neutralize them,” Hawley added.
Read Hawley’s full letter below:
🚨🚨 NEW – Whistleblower tells me local law enforcement partners & suppliers offered drones to Secret Service BEFORE the rally – but Secret Service declined pic.twitter.com/UM0jfrMc9z
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 25, 2024
From Breitbart News:
The Secret Service has not explained why there was no drone surveillance for the rally — which could have helped the agency see the sniper climbing to the rooftop of a building and positioning himself with a rifle before firing at Trump.
Despite Secret Service allegedly turning down the use of drone technology, the shooter used a drone to surveil the area just hours before Trump took the stage, FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed Wednesday during testimony to the House Judiciary Committee.
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