Washington ¨C The shooting on Saturday night of a Secret Service agent at the White House Correspondents¡¯ Association dinner raises questions yet again about the protection afforded to America¡¯s political leaders at a time of increased political violence.
Hundreds of agents from several law enforcement agencies were tasked with protecting the annual bash, ?which U.S. President Donald Trump headlined this year.
Yet a suspect with a shotgun and other weapons managed to get just a ?floor above ?the Washington ballroom where an extraordinary concentration of Cabinet members, high-ranking lawmakers and celebrities were dining.
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