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In a hearing led by Republican representatives this week, concerns were raised about the Secret Service’s multiple failures during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The Federalist reported that former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino argued that the series of lapses—such as rejecting essential resources and not attending key briefings—suggested that “layered incompetence always means intent.” 

More on Bongino’s comments:

“Do you believe that you can just chalk up to mere incompetence that the Secret Service did not attend the 9:00 [briefing] meant for scheduling purposes?” Mills asked Bongino. Mills went on to ask the same question about an entire series of failures, noting that the Secret Service had serious communications problems, “that they identified Crooks about an hour ahead of time,” that Trump was not removed from the stage, “that the perimeter did not include” the building used by Crooks, that “there was no drone being flown and that the drone was turned down by the Secret Service.” “Was it just incompetence?” Mills asked repeatedly.

“If you had just ended with your first statement and said, ‘Well, we may have just screwed up the perimeter,’ you could maybe attribute it to ignorance. [But] layered incompetence always means intent,” Bongino responded. 

The former Secret Service special agent described his experience working in the Secret Service when the organization was not politically motivated: “When I was there, it was definitely not a political enterprise. … I never once, working for President Clinton, Bush, and Obama, had anyone even remotely implicate political motive for any decision whatsoever. However, from the commentary directed at some of the agents in charge of the Donald Trump detail … clearly it appears that, for the first time in American history, we have a Secret Service that is making decisions that may not be all political, but may have a political tinge to them.”

Witnesses, including Erik Prince of Blackwater private security, highlighted significant security oversights, like failing to secure vulnerable locations and rejecting communication tools. Prince said, “Thank God that 20-year-old … aimed at a headshot at President Trump, because if he’d aimed center mass, President Trump would probably be dead. … A Hezbollah team, or ISIS, or you name the terrorist organization that actually knows what they’re doing, would have been successful that day.”

RELATED: Protecting the President: An Inside Account of the Troubled Secret Service in an Era of Evolving Threats by Dan Bongino (Amazon)