The vital importance of whistleblowers and their courageous actions in holding government officials and agencies accountable to the American people has come into stark relief during these tumultuous days for our republic.

U.S. senator Josh Hawley of Missouri recently sent a communication to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) director Alejandro Mayorkas which details the claims of whistleblowers regarding the astonishing failures of the agency and the Secret Service, which is a part of DHS, that resulted in the attempted assassination of former U.S. president and Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

The perpetrator of that crime, Thomas Matthew Crooks, also wounded others and killed retired firefighter Corey Comperatore.

The revelations of gross incompetence -- or perhaps worse -- made by whistleblowers enabled other members of Congress to forcefully grill the then-director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, during a July 21 hearing of the House Oversight Committee.

During that hearing, COS endorser and U.S. representative. Pat Fallon of Texas utilized his time to inform Cheatle that he conducted a simulation of the assassination attempt. Rep. Fallon said that he had a 94 percent success rate -- "15 of 16 kill shots" -- with his own AR-15 despite not having any formal long-range shooting training.

Rep. Fallon also had an instantly-memed moment when he referenced Cheatle's tenure as senior director of global...

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