INTELLIGENCE SERVICE – UNITED STATES

Trump attack: fury directed at Secret Service

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Original article by Adam Creighton
The Australian – Page: 1 & 8 : 17-Sep-24

The US Secret Service has come under criticism from Republicans after Ryan Wesley Routh got close enough to Donald Trump to threaten his life, just nine weeks after Trump’s ear was grazed by an assassin’s bullet in Pennsylvania. Routh was detained by authorities after allegedly seeking to shoot the former president while he was playing golf at his private golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, while Trump says the attempted assassination would not deter his efforts to return to the White House. Democrat rival Kamala Harris said she was "deeply disturbed" by the attempted assassination, while President Joe Biden said he was "relieved that the former president is unharmed".

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Secret Service faces review as top sniper claims this guy had help

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Original article by Matthew Cranston
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 12 : 16-Jul-24

US President Joe Biden has ordered an independent review of the Secret Service in the wake of the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday. The investigation will focus on how Thomas Matthew Crook was able to get close enough to shoot at Trump with an assault-style rifle, with one of Crook’s shots appearing to hit Trump on the ear. Meanwhile, Canadian Special Operations sniper Dallas Alexander, whose team holds the world record for the longest confirmed sniper kill, contends that Crook could not have been able to get in a position to shoot at Trump in broad daylight from a rooftop just a couple of hundred metres away without getting help from "somewhere within an agency organisation or government".

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