What unfolded in Butler, Pennsylvania, was already one of the most chilling moments in modern U.S. politics: a gunman on a rooftop, eight shots, a former president bleeding onstage and two innocent people dead.<\/p>\n
Now, the story is shifting from a lone attacker to a system that may have seen the danger coming and failed to act\u2014or chose not to share what it knew.<\/p>\n
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Rep. Pat Fallon says his task force was \u201cstonewalled,\u201d never told about hundreds of extremist posts investigators linked to Thomas Crooks. Former FBI leaders insist they ran a massive probe, while critics like Tucker Carlson accuse them of hiding the gunman\u2019s digital trail. Between those versions lies a frightening uncertainty: if a would-be presidential assassin can slip through the cracks after leaving such a footprint, how safe is anyone who steps onto a political stage again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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