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Yeah no shit. Pretty much all western media ran this story within hours of each others with only an anonymous source. The story stinks to high heavens of foreign policy fabrication.
I don't see how the fact that security was tighter than normal at the assassination attempt is anything but an embarrassment to the US government.
All security is theater.
In a country where anyone can have a gun, practically all security is largely reactionary.
If you set up a perimeter, a potential attacker will just shoot from outside controlled area.
I highly doubt the secret service is nearly as effective as they’d like us to believe, much like how the TSA is largely useless and only there to discourage attempts in the first place.
I don’t want to go too far down the conspiracy rabbit hole, but I think embarrassment is precisely why a lot of the JFK assassination stuff was classified for so long. After Oswald started shooting, there was a lot of panic and the cars suddenly accelerated. A secret service agent was photographed falling backwards in a car while holding an AR-15 around the same time that JFKs head exploded. Seems likely that the secret service accidentally shot the president in the head, and then covered it up for decades to avoid the embarrassment.
Letting a lone gunman get passed hightened security is one thing, but if they imply that he was some operative from Iran, then it’s way less embarrassing and they can keep the public assuming that they know what they are doing.