by John Solomon at Just the News
The Secret Service failures at last month’s Trump rally were foreshadowed in once-redacted passages from a Jan. 6 after-action report that was shared with agency brass weeks before the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt and exposed harrowing blunders that may have put the lives of Mike Pence and Kamala Harris in jeopardy.
The redacted sections from a recently released Homeland Security inspector general report, obtained by Just the News, chronicle how Pence’s escape vehicle left its post without explicit permission and left him stranded at an increasingly violent scene at the Capitol.
They also detail how Secret Service agents lost contact with each other on radios and cell phones that dropped signals and how a required explosives detection team wasn’t deployed when Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris was mistakenly whisked past a live pipe bomb just before the Capitol riot started.
The April 2024 report also revealed that the Secret Service received intelligence from the FBI and U.S. Postal Service Inspection Service ahead of Jan. 6, 2021, warning that there was a “high potential for civil unrest” from individuals who were expected to be “heavily armed.”
The Secret Service did not adapt its security plan from its…
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