The Secret Service’s mishandling of Jan. 6 demands a reckoning

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The documents unveiled in last week’s hearing come from a trove of more than 1 million pages’ worth of records the Secret Service provided to the investigatory panel after the embarrassment of those missing text messages. They show that the agency was aware of a threat more than a week before the riot.

“Their plan is to literally kill people,” one tipster wrote. The morning of the insurrection, one email warned of an alert “regarding VP [Mike Pence] being a dead man walking if he doesn’t do the right thing.” The Secret Service also observed rallygoers with firearms and knew of reports that D.C. police had detained someone with an assault rifle.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/17/secret-service-jan-6-mishandling-reckoning/
 
The documents unveiled in last week’s hearing come from a trove of more than 1 million pages’ worth of records the Secret Service provided to the investigatory panel after the embarrassment of those missing text messages. They show that the agency was aware of a threat more than a week before the riot.

“Their plan is to literally kill people,” one tipster wrote. The morning of the insurrection, one email warned of an alert “regarding VP [Mike Pence] being a dead man walking if he doesn’t do the right thing.” The Secret Service also observed rallygoers with firearms and knew of reports that D.C. police had detained someone with an assault rifle.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/17/secret-service-jan-6-mishandling-reckoning/

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"The documents, lawmakers have pointed out, also throw doubt on the credibility of closed-door testimony from presidential detail leader Robert Engel and from Tony Ornato — a Secret Service leader who received an unprecedented appointment to the political role of White House deputy chief of staff. Beyond the question of what the Secret Service knew ahead of the attack, and what did it do with that knowledge, it is also important to learn what its agents saw of the president’s actions during the riot at the Capitol."
 
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