As Congress turns its attention to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life, a key House investigator vowed Monday to issue a subpoena to force the disclosure of a long-delayed report on an earlier Secret Service failure to detect a bomb that could have jeopardized Kamala Harris' life the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The Homeland Security Department's inspector general has completed a report on Secret Service missteps during the Capitol crisis 3 years ago but is refusing to release it even though footage Just the News published a year ago shows Secret Service agents took then Vice President-elect Harris within 10 yards of an undetected explosive device planted at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., said.
Loudermilk last week sent a letter accusing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of holding up the release of two reports by the inspector general, the agency's independent watchdog, including the one entitled "United States Secret Service Preparation for and Response to the Events of January 6, 2021."
"We are aware that the Secret Service has reviewed and cleared this report. Therefore, you alone are preventing the DHS OIG from releasing this report to Congress," Loudermilk said.
In the podcast interview, Loudermilk said the delays are not only hurting the American public's ability to learn about the failure to detect the Jan. 6 bomb, they also are intruding on the legally required independence of the Homeland inspector general and may amount to a coverup.
Loudermilk said the documented failure to detect the bomb may have been a premonition of the failures the Secret Service displayed during the assassination.
Loudermilk said he believes the IG report on Jan. 6 failures contains new information on why the Service missed the bomb that could be relevant to the large issue of presidential security.
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