I think the SS do not care at all. They were not vigilant when the assassination of the Kennedys. Nor when some lunatic tried to kill Reagan. I do not believe in the “lone wolf”.
It would likely be a mistake to say that the SS, as a general rule, don't care. Those who are experienced would be professional and highly trained. And yes, there was shenanigan's a plenty for JFK, as Ennio's referenced
Evidence of Revision looks at (an excellent watch), and yet even there, there were professionals who cared and were bamboozled by second and third orders of consequences beyond their control. As for a lone wolf, it is often a contentious issue as SOTT has documented for decades (second and third teams of shooters that can be marked but slip away with a narrative that helps), but sometimes it can be just one guy who is spun up in some way. More is needed here to look at the field.
The Secret Service took a reputation hit, I don't think will be in their best interest to lose a presidential candidate after yesterday's events.
Some more is coming out on the security situation. SS is laying the blame on local police, saying it was their job to secure the surrounding properties.
And local police are saying one of their officers confronted Crooks right before the shooting. Crooks aimed his gun at the officer, who was climbing the ladder to the roof. He then quickly took aim and fired at Trump.
There will be a blame game for sure, and yet the reality of all this seemed to be more one of amateur hour. The venue itself would not be difficult to coordinate; like Joe said in the NewsReel show, of the simplicity of cops sitting in a chair on a roof, it is just not very hard to work out. So, one might be left with the impression that Trump got a low level C team, purely on the basis that that they could not coordinate the site - inexperience was there to see. The cops failure themselves is there to see, yet someone is always responsible - in control to ask a series of basic questions of security control - what do we have on the roofs, how is this or that being looked at, does each team member have proximity of control, and so on and so forth.
As for the counter snipers, would still lean to them being on target - or very close, and it is not typical to have two snipers when one would work with a spotter, and there was not a dedicated spotter. As for taking the shot, an A Team sniper would do that (working with a spotter). So, whether a Russian spetsnaz, a Canadian CSOR or an American special forces trained sniper, it would be second nature for them to take the shot, with the authority to do so once a threat was established (and establishment here is a question). If there was some sort of policy that this team couldn't, that makes no sense, why bother showing up?
As for the assassin (still assume he had a AR-15 with iron sights) who may have been wound up psychologically, steered and then set loose, at sub 200 yards this is not hard for the first shot (which by the grace of the DCM Trump turned), yet after that it gets dicey. Now how this guy - a kid really, came to be on the scene, who climbed up on a roof with a rifle while many people are taking notice, speaks to an operational failure beyond reason - hence being subject to post assassination attempt finger pointing. So, official narrative building seems to now be in full press.
It will get interesting.
