Secret Service’s Incompetence a Secret No More

BY CURTIS HILL, Jr. | Project 21 Curtis Hill, Jr. OPINION (PROJECT 21) – The July 13 attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania was a complete law enforcement failure, made more profound by the amateurism of the assailant. It revealed perhaps the biggest “secret” of the Secret Service: Our nation’s top executive protection agency is hindered by the same bureaucratic rot that has long infected our government — and threatens to destroy our freedom, one catastrophic failure after another. Had the gunman been a mysterious traveler from two states away, cloaked in espionage and intrigue, we might believe that such a glaring error was the product of a conspiracy — culminating in the death of the sniper to hide his connection to said conspiracy. Instead, we got a troubled young man strolling by the most elite security protection in the world, seemingly exclaiming, “Look at me, I am here to shoot the president!” In a tidal wave of negligence that can only be described as more ordinary than anyone would have hoped, this misfit nearly pulled off the crime of the century. The assassination of a former president and current presidential candidate would...