In this article for The Conversation, Javed Ali, a scholar of counter-terrorism at the University of Michigan and a former FBI and Department of Homeland Security official, explores the security failures that the assassination attempt exposes, as well as how this attack may be part of a larger pattern. Ali discusses how the attack may influence how the Secret Service operates, if it could potentially increase the risk of domestic extremism, and more.
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