I was listening to aTV interview with retired Secret Service Officer. He looked like an old school G-man, and explained how this location was supposed to have been assessed for resource placement. He said the first thing they do is send an advanced team to the venue, days in advance, scoping out all possible contingencies; hostiles with guns, bombs, vehicles, etc, for the placement of SS resources. These advanced teams are the pros and they will create the game plan to button things up tightly. This plan is then moved down the chain of command to position all the resources and personal; Secret Service, State Troopers and Local Police.
One of the very first things the advance team will look for is the high ground, to make sure there is no place that has a clear line of sight for any possible shooter. This old SS guy was fuming, since that building where the shooter fired, was such an obvious threat. He said they need answers and people need to be fired. The building where the shooter was, should never have been left unguarded. The advanced team should have had that in their game plan, and even with low resources they would have place a least a State Trooper on that roof. Based on eyewitness who saw and filmed the shooter on the roof and yelled for the police, the resources place had no sight of the roof and were slow to react to the people yelling about the shooter.
He also made the point the investigators need to find out what the Secret Service snipers orders were, in terms of possible threats. Were their orders to shoot any hostile on sight? Or were their orders to wait for the shooter to shoot first. The shooter got off 5 rounds, from a semi-automatic rifle, before the sniper took him out with one shot between the eyes. My guess is the sniper had a stand down order until shots were fire. This may have been out of concern with accidentally harming friendlies. The Head of the Secret Service has not been forthcoming.
Not following the most basic procedure with the high ground, and possible stand down order, could cause some to interpret this all to mean a plan to allow access for a shooter, and then have a sniper taking him out, after he fires, so the shooter cannot spill the beans. The Director of the Secret Service; Kimberly Cheatle, was appointed in 2022 under Biden's watch. While the DNC is notorious for flooding agencies with their own rabid loyalists. But then again there is also DEI, where competence means less than surface things.
Based on what little we know of the shooter, he could have been an easy person to motivate. He was a loner and was bullied. He was fairly smart and won some Biden math award that was worth $500. All bad guys would need to do is befriend him, build up his confidence, until he is ready to prove his loyalty to the team. They only needed to get a 5-10 minute window with a clear line of sight, that was left open.
