Chris’ # 2 conclusion at the end of the video:
“There’s no accounting for Crooks between 5:45 and 6:05 and this is quite mysterious.”
The conflicting information from the FBI, the Secret Service, and local law enforcement on this crucial piece of the puzzle is absolutely maddening.
On July 30th, from FBI Deputy Director Abbate’s opening statement to the Congressional committee panel hearing on the assassination attempt:
"At around 5:32 p.m., local SWAT observed the shooter next to the AGR building using his phone, browsing news sites, and with a range finder. At approximately 5:38 p.m., the photo of the shooter taken earlier was sent to local SWAT operators in a text message group.
Subsequently, approximately 25 minutes prior to the shooting, the U.S. Secret Service command post was notified of a suspicious person.
Officers lost sight of the subject from approximately 6:02 p.m. to 6:08 p.m. but continued to communicate with each other, in an attempt to locate him."
The inference from Abbate’s opening remarks seems clear; Crooks was under continuous observation by local law enforcement personnel from 5:32 to 6:02, when “officers lost sight of the subject…”
How else is there to interpret what Abbate said, even though we now know it’s erroneous?
Why did he do that?
If the local police officers he’s referring to (they have to be the Butler and Beaver County snipers, unless Abbate is really playing games here…) had lost sight of Crooks prior to 6:02, then Abbate should have used that time, of course, and also the 6:02 time, to reflect the second time that they lost sight of him.
Worse, Abbate’s testimony conflicts dramatically with the sequence of events laid out by the Washington Post from local law enforcement radio transcripts:
“Just an FYI, we had a younger white male, long hair, lurking around the AGR building,” a local countersniper said at 5:42 p.m., according to a time-stamped transcript of encrypted radio communications obtained by The Washington Post. “He was viewed with a range finder sighting the stage. … We lost sight of him.”
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The local officers lost track of Crooks, and would not see him again for 20 minutes, the transcript shows."
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“Our sierra units lost visual of him,” Lenz (Sgt. Ed Lenz, Butler County Tactical Mobile Unit Commander) told the traffic-control officers at 5:54 p.m., using the code name for local tactical officers. “I believe you guys are outside of that fence, if you come upon him.”
Crooks would resurface eight minutes later, setting off an intensifying manhunt."
So the Washington Post timeline seems to indicate that Crooks first went out of sight of local law enforcement around 5:42, a full 10 minutes after he was seen on the retaining wall with the rangefinder in hand.
That leaves us three minutes shy of Chris’ 5:45 to 6:05 timeline.
And here’s where things get really interesting, because Abbate makes no mention of this in his testimony, a week after Cheatle testified.
Remember this Congressional testimony from Cheatle?
"Rep. Jake LaTurner – Republican – Kansas: Is it true that at 5:45 pm, approximately 18 minutes before President Trump took the stage, the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit noticed the shooter on the roof and photographed him?
Is that a fact or not?
Secret Service Director Cheatle: That is the information that I have from the FBI’s report, yes.
Rep. Jake LaTurner: You haven’t been willing to share whether or when this was communicated to the Secret Service, so I’d like to get into the difference between suspicious activity and threatening activity."
How has this explosive revelation been allowed to suffocate to death?
Does this account for where Crooks was for some of the time between 5:45 and 6:02?
If he was elsewhere, on the ground during that time, wouldn’t that same camera that supposedly captured him climbing on the roof at 6:06, also record him at some point before then? How about other cameras, like the one that recorded him entering the site in the first place?
