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The US Secret Service has “deep flaws” that need to be resolved urgently or more assassination attempts like the one at Donald Trump’s rally will happen again, a damning report says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An independent panel tasked with investigating the 13 July shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, released its findings on Thursday, and said the organisation had become “bureaucratic, complacent and static”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It called for an overhaul of its leadership in the 52-page report, and said a “number of specific failures and breakdowns” enabled the attack against the Republican presidential candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Secret Service has already acknowledged failures on its part, and its director resigned weeks after the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement on Thursday, its acting director Ronald Rowe said the agency would carefully examine the new report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We have already significantly improved our readiness, operational and organisational communications and implemented enhanced protective operations for the former president,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the report, which was drafted by state and national law enforcement officials, the panel praised the agents who risk their lives to protect many of the country’s highest-ranking officials but noted several leadership and cultural failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These included a “troubling lack of critical thinking” among staff and a reluctance to “speak up”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agency’s issues, the report said, were “systemic or cultural” and it called for “fundamental reform” including removing some of its top leadership “as soon as possible”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Without that reform… another Butler can and will happen again,” the panel wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who oversees the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Joe Biden ordered a bipartisan review of the protective agency after a gunman attempted to assassinate Trump at his campaign rally by firing from a nearby rooftop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired eight shots at the rally, killing one man and leaving Trump with a bloody ear. The Secret Service shot and killed Crooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Thursday, the panel called for \u201ca mandate that all outdoor events are observed by overhead technology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another gunman was spotted near the former president outside of the Trump International Golf Course in Palm Beach, Florida in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police arrested him after noticing the tip of a rifle poking through shrubbery a few hundred yards away from Trump who was inside the golf course.<\/p>\n\n
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