A whistleblower is coming forward with further allegations against the Secret Service related to the agency’s failure to prevent the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life less than two weeks ago.

Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) wrote a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asking for more details about a whistleblower allegation that the Secret Service rejected requests from local law enforcement to fly drones over the Trump rally.

“According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally. This means that the technology was both available to USSS and able to be deployed to secure the site. Secret Service said no. The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, USSS changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack,” Hawley wrote.

“The failure to deploy drone technology is all the more concerning since, according to the whistleblower, the drones USSS was offered had the capability not only to identify active shooters but also to help neutralize them.”

Hawley is a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which will hold a hearing next week on the Trump assassination attempt. The hearing will feature top officials from the Secret Service and FBI. The Secret...

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