Secret Service failed to ensure safeguards were in place at Trump's...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : It has previously been reported that Crooks was spotted by law enforcement, using a rangefinder and looking at his phone, nearly an hour before Trump took the stage
44% : Plans were discussed by agents with Secret Service headquarters and the Pittsburgh field office to potentially use cranes, trucks and flags to block the line of sight from the AGR International building - from which Trump's would-be assassin opened fire - to the stage where the president was shot, officials told the Washington Post.
43% : According to the internal probe, Secret Service agents didn't hear local police talking on their radios about trying to track down Crooks and then locating him after Trump began his remarks.
35% : The internal probe, ordered by Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe, also found that the agency never instructed local police to secure the rooftop from which 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate Trump.Crooks, perched atop the building about 130 yards from the rally stage, had a clear line of sight when he fired off eight rounds, killing a rallygoer, wounding two others and striking Trump's ear.
32% : Agents on the ground got the message that Crooks was a "threat" just 10 minutes before Trump began speaking.

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