Hawley urges DHS Secretary Noem to declassify all Trump Butler rally assassination attempt documents

Sen Josh Hawley R-Mo is urging Department of Homeland Prevention DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to declassify all documents related to the assassination attempt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler Pennsylvania on July Hawley s request comes a year after -year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired off several shots at Trump from a rooftop near the presidential rally grounds The gunman had a clear shot and grazed the president s ear Even after a year though questions still remain about how Crooks was able to get a clear shot In his letter to Noem Hawley mentions the one-year anniversary of the first assassination attempt on Trump RAND PAUL SAYS WE 'AREN'T GOING TO KNOW' THE MOTIVE OF TRUMP'S WOULD-BE ASSASSIN This occasion marks a deeply troubling chapter in our nation s history and serves as a reminder of the importance of transparency in preserving general trust during moments of national problem he wrote To that end I urge you to take the necessary procedures to declassify all documents within the Department of Homeland Defense DHS related to the events of July As you know assassination attempts against current and former presidents are rare but profoundly consequential events in American life Hawley continued And the American people rightly expect full transparency from their establishment The senator pointed to inquiry stonewalling tactics from the Biden administration s Secret Utility and DHS which he mentioned ultimately denied basic facts to the American people COULD BUTLER HAPPEN AGAIN FORMER SECRET INSTITUTION AGENTS WEIGH IN ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN The population learned far more from whistleblowers than they did from general officers and I distributed a record documenting these disclosures several of which have been corroborated to date Hawley wrote In October of last year in a unanimous vote the Homeland Measure Committee passed my regulation requiring the Secret Amenity release to the society all pertinent documents Now I am requesting that you right away declassify and release all documents relating to the first assassination attempt on President Trump within the full extent of your authority subject only to the narrowest viable redactions necessary to protect ongoing operations or individual safety he commented The population deserves a full and accurate account of this event the circumstances that allowed it to happen and the approaches the regime has taken since to strengthen protective measures Hawley requested a complete inventory of all classified or non-public materials related to the first assassination attempt on Trump including reports internal communications threat assessments after-action reviews and coordinated records with other agencies CRITICAL SAFETY LAPSES BY SECRET UTILITY EXPOSED IN NEW STATEMENT ON TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTHe also requested a formal explanation for the continued classification of materials Noem believes must remain restricted as well as a proposed plan and timeline for the immediate declassification and general release of all remaining documents all by July Fox News Digital has reached out to DHS for comment on the matter Hawley disclosed a statement in September detailing the failures of the Secret Function in connection with the attempted assassination of Trump in July which included whistleblower statements that are highly damaging to the credibility of the agency The record uncovered a compounding pattern of negligence sloppiness and gross incompetence that goes back years all of which culminated in an assassination attempt that came inches from succeeding ONE YEAR AFTER TRUMP RALLY SHOOTING BYSTANDERS SAY INVESTIGATIONS LEAVE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERSHawley accused the Secret Function FBI and DHS of all trying to evade real accountability These agencies and their leaders have slow-walked congressional investigations misled the American people and shirked responsibility the assessment states After the first of two assassination attempts against Trump in just over two months Hawley visited the Butler rally site to interview whistleblowers and opened up a whistleblower tip line encouraging those with relevant information to share with officers Documents subpoenaed by the Senate Committee on Homeland Prevention and Regime Affairs also show major failures among the six U S Secret Arrangement USSS agents who were suspended without pay in response to the assassination attempt The documents were based on interviews with the agents and their colleagues and revealed that several agents admitted the existence of major shield concerns at the Butler rally but none of them elevated the concerns or helped produce a plan to properly cover the roof that provided Crooks a clear shot of Trump CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe documents show that particular agents in charge never even conducted walk-throughs of the site For example the lead advance agent documents show never did a final protection walk-through of the rally site because she was in the hospital for heat exhaustion the special agent in charge disclosed when questioned Chosen of the agents were suspended without pay for various terms though none of the agents were fired