The United States Secret Service is fighting a legal watchdog's efforts to obtain documents on the June 13 attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, which left one bystander dead and two others wounded.
The non-profit public interest law firm Judicial Watch reports the Secret Service “completely denied multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for documents about the assassination attempt on former President Trump.”
Judicial Watch reports that opn July 16, 2024 the group “filed three comprehensive FOIA requests seeking emails, videos, and advance survey security assessments, among other documents related to the assassination attempt on Trump. The Secret Service refused to produce not one record in response.”
“At this time, pursuant to Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(B)(7)(A), any potentially responsive records, if they exist, are exempt as disclosure could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. The citation of the above exemption is not to be construed as the only exemption which may be available under the FOIA,” the Secret Service responded.
Judicial Watch reports they are now “pursuing the next steps in preparation for litigation.”
“The Biden Secret Service is in cover-up mode on its inexcusable and epic failure to protect former President Trump and other innocents,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “For Secret Service leaders to promise transparency to Congress while hiding every possible FOIA record from the American people is yet another indictment of this corrupt and failing agency.”
Judicial Watch notes it “has over 25 FOIA and open records currently pending on the shooting of Trump with the Biden administration and local and state officials and agencies in Pennsylvania.”
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Our elected representatives need to start representing us. Starting investigations and giving the media political sound bites doesn’t cut it. Cheatle resigned. That is a start. USE THE POWER OF THE PURSE. TAKE YOUR OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY. Bureaucrats can answer you in public or private but they damn sure better answer you. This may have been a brazen attempt by our intelligence agencies(deepstate) to protect themselves and affect an election. Sniff the rats out.
I have no doubt that the Biden administration orchestrated this entire affair in order to kill former President Trump. But I think Liz Cheney is able to influence the secret service agencies to prevent Trump from winning the election. In more way or deliberately another, this was expertly planned and coordinated by a number of DOJ and Secret Service departments. Without a doubt, the secret service failed in its attempt to murder former President Trump, not in protecting him. There is a cover-up going on inside the Biden administration that no one will ever know about, which is why anyone doesn’t believe what’s actually happening. This is a dangerous game that the media and fake journalists are all participating in.
If you have nothing to hide then provide the documentation as requested but NO, then are hiding the truth! We need answers, NOW
The Secret Service was either criminally negligent or worse! I can’t even make myself write what worse is!! We need to fear and can’t trust the FBI and now the Secret Service????!!!