Cheatle gave the order to not have the roof guarded despite the fact that she knew it was a security vulnerability.
The now-infamous building where Thomas Matthew Crooks was perched had a slightly sloped roof, but Cheatle claimed the rooftop was too dangerous for her Secret Service team to secure.
“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” she said. “And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”
So, as Jones pointed out in his video, Cheatle gave the order to not have the roof guarded despite the fact that she knew it was a security vulnerability.
After admitting to what was essentially a stand-down, Cheatle also refused to step down from her position after “failing” at the most important part of her job.
Jones noted, “The good thing is, nobody is buying this right now and people see right through this. We’ve got members of Congress, all these special operations people, sniper experts all going public, saying, ‘This was default turned off. Yes, it was a stand-down. It wasn’t incompetence.’”