From the Daily Caller: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Monday that FBI Director Kash Patel ordered an “immediate response” following Sunday’s discovery of a hunting stand near Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport.
The hunting stand, which had a direct line of sight to Air Force One, was discovered Sunday before President Donald Trump’s arrival for a return flight to Washington, D.C., following a weekend at Mar-a-Lago. Bongino told “Fox and Friends” co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt, Lawrence Jones and Brian Kilmeade that the stand was found during a security sweep due to modifications made after recent assassinations and assassination attempts.
“The Secret Service has had to make a lot of modifications, Lawrence, given that this tool was obviously used or attempted to use multiple times,” Bongino said after Jones expressed concerns about snipers. “They’ve expanded their security perimeter.”
The FBI is not responsible for, obviously, the security plan fo the president. That is the purview of the Secret Service,” Bongino explained, adding, “However, if the Secret Service finds something they believe could be critical, I want to emphasize could be, we take over. We have what is called a MOU, a memorandum of understanding with the Secret Service where we will investigate after that.”
Bongino said when the hunting stand was discovered, FBI Director Kash Patel “ordered an immediate response” and had the FBI plane flown down to Florida.
“This hunting stand was appropriately dismantled and flown to our lab, I believe it’s there right now, and all forensic tools from digital tools to biometric tools will be applied to find out who put this up and why,” he said.
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