Overview

• A July 10 self-evaluation described the agency as bureaucratic and complacent, revealing major gaps that allowed Thomas Matthew Crooks to fire shots at close range during the Butler rally.
• A bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report condemned a “cascade of preventable errors,” faulting failures to act on credible intelligence and coordinate with local law enforcement.
• Six agents were suspended for 10 to 42 days with pay withheld, while former director Kimberly Cheatle remains the only senior official to have departed since the attack.
• The FBI continues to probe Crooks’s unclear motives after discovering his extensive online searches into past assassinations, event layouts and bomb-making.
• A foiled secondary threat in September at a Florida golf course highlighted ongoing risks and prompted fresh calls for a fundamental overhaul of presidential protection protocols.