Secret Service failed to detect Crooks’ drone – Rowepublished at 16:23
16:23
Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from Capitol Hill
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Facing questions from Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, Rowe – for the first time publicly – acknowledges that the Secret Service failed to deploy a counter-drone system in time, potentially with fatal results.
According to Rowe, the Secret Service was unable to deploy the “counter unmanned aerial system” until later on in the day – several hours after Thomas Matthew Crooks flew his drone over the site – because of cellular connectivity issues.
“That is something that has cost me a lot of sleep, because of the eventual outcome,” Rowe says. “It is something I have struggled with. I don’t understand.”
“I have no explanation… I feel as though we could have found him, could have maybe stopped him on that particular day. He would have decided this isn’t the day to do it, because law enforcement just found [him] flying his drone.”
Rowe adds that drones are flown near protected locations “all the time”.
“We go out and we talk to them,” he adds. “We ascertain what their intentions are.”
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