"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said investigators were still examining whether the bullet that struck a Secret Service officer, who was protected by a bulletproof vest, was fired by suspect Cole Thomas Allen."
This is something else that Norm Ornstein and I were going over this morning. Were are on the same page here. IF the bullet that struck the Secret Service officer WAS from Cole Allen's gun, that is something that could have been determined by simple ballistics testing long before now. The fact that the ballistics testing either hasn't been done, or else has been done, but is being kept under wraps for "editing," is a near-definitive statement that Cole Allen's handgun did not fire the shot. Ergo, the bullet came from the service weapon of another Secret Service agent, and they definitely DID fire shots. As a matter of fact, no reports whatsoever have indicated that Cole Allen fired any shots at all from his handgun.
Determining from which weapon the projectile that hit the SS agent was fired is not Nobel Prize winning forensics. There were not a huge number of weapons fired in those few seconds, and any grade B lab--hell, any grade B patrolman--can determine whether or not a gun has been recently fired. Don't tell me that it takes the top investigative agencies of the United States more than a day to be "still examening" one slug to determine which one out of two kinds of firearm it was fired from. It doesn't. If the public doesn't know by now, that is because the story that will ultimately be given to the public will be one that is still being edited, and will have little to do with the truth. Maybe the slug is still being transformed into something that is "deformed beyond recognition," though I'm betting that the metallic composition alone would determine within minutes which kind of hand gun fired it--especially when there are only two choices. Their only path to a convincing lie now is to take Cole Allen's gun, use one of the bullets he had, fire it in their lab into a bulletproof vest, extract it, and then say, "aha! it was definitely shot from the assailant's gun!" Now THAT might take a day or two to set up, and THAT would explain why "they" are "still examening" anything at all.
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