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Whistleblower Claims Secret Service Denied Law Enforcement Drone Help [VIDEOS]

Posted By RVM News Staff On July 25, 2024 @ 12:50 pm In Law Enforcement,News | 1 Comment

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri revealed that the Secret Service apparently turned down offers for drone surveillance at a Pennsylvania rally where former President Donald Trump narrowly dodged an assassination attempt.

According to a whistleblower cited by Sen. Hawley, law enforcement authorities offered drone security multiple times leading up to the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13th. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Hawley expressed his frustration, stating that the technology was readily available and could have been used to enhance security at the event, but the Secret Service declined the offers.

🚨🚨 NEW – Whistleblower tells me local law enforcement partners & suppliers offered drones to Secret Service BEFORE the rally – but Secret Service declined pic.twitter.com/UM0jfrMc9z ^[1]

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 25, 2024 ^[2]

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Hawley minced no words in criticizing the Secret Service’s alleged refusal, calling it into question and demanding answers from Secretary Mayorkas regarding what he referred to as “staggering security failures.”

The Senator plans to grill Department of Homeland Security officials in a Congressional hearing scheduled for next week.

“It is hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered,” Hawley asserted in his letter, highlighting that the Secret Service allowed the perpetrator to fly a drone over the rally area just hours before the incident.