#security failures

Secret Service agents have revealed their disbelief at the security failures they see in Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack.

MS NOW’s Carol Leonnig spoke to sources immediately after the chaos at the Washington Hilton who suggested that the alleged shooter—now identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen from California—shouldn’t have been able to make it past metal detectors while heavily armed.

And then they emailed me an hour later saying "we messed up"

How security failures enabled Trump mob to storm U.S. Capitol

(Reuters) – The bloody chaos inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday came after the police force that protects the legislative complex was overrun by a mob of Trump supporters in what law enforcement officials called a catastrophic failure to prepare. The siege of the Capitol, home to both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, represents one of the gravest security lapses in recent U.S.…

LONDON | UK coroner cites security shortcomings in officer’s death

LONDON — Britain’s chief coroner has said that security failures may have played a role in the stabbing death of a policeman killed during an extremist attack on Parliament last year.

Coroner Mark Lucraft said Wednesday that “shortcomings in the security system” meant armed officers weren’t guarding an entrance to Parliament when an extremist stabbed policeman Keith Palmer to death on March 22,…