Source: HeadlineUSA.com
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., revealed whistleblower allegations Tuesday about the lack of training of the DHS Homeland Security Investigations agents assigned to guard Donald Trump at the deadly July 13 rally in Butler Pennsylvania.
According to Hawley, a whistleblower told him that the only training received by many HSI agents was a single two-hour webinar on Microsoft Teams featuring pre-recorded videos.
“The whistleblower alleged that these videos were not substantive and their playback was frequently riddled with technical mishaps, leaving the HSI agents ill-prepared for the protective mission to which they were newly assigned,” Hawley said Tuesday in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“To quote the whistleblower directly: ‘Imagine 1,000 people logging onto Microsoft Teams at the same time after being informed at the last minute that everyone needed to login individually. Once it got rolling, the Secret Service instructor couldn’t figure out how to get the audio working on the prerecorded videos (which I’m told are the same videos as last year). All told, they restarted the videos approximately six times …. The content was not helpful,’” Hawley said.
Ever worse, the senator added, is the fact that DHS hasn’t changed its training methods in the wake of the July 13 assassination attempt….