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A government audit report reviewed by RIA Novosti found that the US Secret Service did not update security regulations on time and did not consider drones as a threat before the 2024 assassination attempt on Trump.
Brief retelling from RIA II
Before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in 2024, the US Secret Service did not consider civilian drones a threat to senior officials.
Thomas Matthew Crooks used a drone to plot an assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in mid-July 2024.
Security regulations for protecting senior officials were adjusted only after the assassination attempt on Trump in 2024.
WASHINGTON, September 9 - RIA Novosti. The US Secret Service did not consider civilian drones a threat to senior officials until the assassination attempt on then US presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2024, when a UAV was used in preparation, follows from a government audit report reviewed by RIA Novosti.
Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks used a drone to plot an assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in mid-July 2024. He freely launched a drone just hours before the rally to reconnoiter the area.
At the same time, the department has encountered incidents with civilian drones since at least 2015. Then a drone approached President Barack Obama's motorcade in Hawaii, and in 2016, another drone flew at an altitude of about 200 feet above participants in a rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Several more quadcopters were spotted during the inauguration of President Joe Biden in Washington in January 2021.
Security regulations for the protection of senior officials were adjusted only after the assassination attempt on Trump in 2024, according to a report studied by RIA Novosti.
The audit also found that eight of 22 safety regulations had not been revised within the required time frame, even though they are supposed to be updated every four years. One of the instructions regarding the foreign travel of the US Vice President has not been updated since July 2001.
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The US Secret Service will strengthen measures against unmanned aerial systems
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