Bongino Slams Secret Service: ‘How the Hell Is the Crowd Acting as the Freakin’ Counter-Surveillance Operators?

WATTERS: “Former Secret Service agent, Dan Bongino, joins me now. Is this gross incompetence or is it something even more scary that we cannot even think about?”
BONGINO: “No, it’s gross incompetence. I mean, think about it. Counter-sniper teams, they train out — the Secret Service counter-sniper team, obviously there to mitigate a sniper threat, they train out to 1000 yards. So we are talking about — say it was 200 yards, it was actually less than that where this shooter was, right? You are talking about a fraction of what they are trained at. They are also trained to spot guys in gilly suits, cracked open windows. He is on a white roof in broad daylight.”
WATTERS: “He’s on a white roof!”
BONGINO: “Again, it would be easy for me to say, ‘Oh, well, let’s not get into Monday morning quarterbacking.’ Bro, it’s not a freakin’ football game. It’s the president of the United States’ life. The Secret Service has one job. Well, outside of counterfeiting, protection is one job. You keep the body alive no matter what. They — I mean, they came within a millimeter of this guy losing his life. I don’t understand some of the commentary that they did a great job. Well, the body guys, that response was a brave, they ran up the ramp, they didn’t know, there could’ve been 10 more shooters, no doubt. Know those guys, pretty heroic what happened there. But the security failure in the perimeter is a complete, total debacle. No one should defend this.”
WATTERS: “So when you have guys — we just played the sound, when you have fans saying, ‘Hey, there’s a guy with a gun over there,’ to multiple law enforcement guys, and they still are just looking around like this, how does that happen?”
BONGINO: “Well, I will tell you. I’m getting from a number of sources that people are feeding to me their information, obviously, because they want to fix it. They are concerned. I think you’re going to see a lot of whistleblowers. I am hearing there were very few, I do not want to give an exact number, but very few actual — I don’t think anyone else has reported this — actual Secret Service post standers at that site. They were temp HSI, homeland security folks, which they are great folks, I’m not knocking them, but that is not what they do specifically. We do protection and we’re trained for that. So I am hearing that. I’m also hearing that the counter sniper team, they had a problem seeing over the elevation. That is why they did not engage right away.”
WATTERS: “Oh, come on.”
BONGINO: “But that is not the problem. The problem — well, it’s a problem, but that’s not the real problem. The real problem is, where the hell was the aerial visual support? Why was there no helicopter? Why was there no drone? Why was there no FLIR? Why was there no thermal, forward-looking infrared? How the hell is the crowd acting as the freaking counter-surveillance operation?”
WATTERS: “I know. If that’s the best you have, is random Trump supported telling police that there’s a guy with a gun, what technology are they deploying? They’re bragging about they have all this new technology. I did not see it.”