Not that you would know it from the sparse and nearly pointless news coverage, but the Secret Service's new Director keeps dropping--or should I say dripping?--new details that make the failures of the Secret Service look less and less plausibly innocent. 

When your best defense is that the most elite protection agency in the world is less competent than the police from a department with fewer than 20 people, perhaps it's time to go with a different strategy for explaining how a kid took a shot at the once and future president. 

In a tried and true "bury the news" strategy, Interim Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe held a relatively late Friday news conference in which he did the "we accept full responsibility" tapdance without taking any responsibility at all, revealing much new information, and most of all explaining how what little he told us was remotely possible in an agency funded by $3 billion with the job to protect high-value targets. 

Here are just a few inexplicable things he revealed:

• the Secret Service had no radio communications not only with the local police but also with the snipers
• most of the vital communications were made using texts over an overloaded cell phone network
• There are no recordings of the Secret Service communications, although there are of the locals
• Rowe's assertions about the responsibilities of the local snipers didn't actually come from the local snipers--it was just made up by the Secret Service (we would know much less were it not for the locals)
• the Secret Service command center was not co-located with the local police
• The investigators have YET to talk to the local police who were assisting the SS, including the snipers (after three weeks!)
• Butler was the VERY FIRST TIME that the Secret Service provided snipers for a Trump rally this election cycle
• hmm, on that last one...

There's a bit more, but that is more than enough. How on earth can vital and time-sensitive information like "there is a sniper on a roof tining up a shot on President Trump" be communicated by text?

Explain that. The Secret Service wasn't even trying to work closely with local law enforcement.

At a news conference Friday, acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe Jr. acknowledged that there were separate communications hubs that did not effectively share information in vital moments. “There might have been radio traffic that we missed. We have to be better on that,” he said.

Rowe repeatedly emphasized that the rally shooting was a failure by the Secret Service, not local law enforcement. “If the large majority of our partners are in a unified command post or in a different location, we need to probably be there, too,” he said.

“We’re certainly going to examine the communication aspect very closely,” Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said in response to questions from The Post.

There's a lot more, including the fact that the normal complement of Secret Service intelligence officers had been pulled from the rally. 

At the time, Director Rowe was the deputy director in charge of ensuring that the protection resources and plans were in place to ensure this didn't happen. He was appointed to replace Kimberly Cheatle as the director by the indescribably corrupt Secretary of Homeland Security, who has been on an anti-Trump crusade for years. 

Hmm. 

It's not just the media who are memory-holing the assassination attempt, it is the Secret Service as well. They aren't just hiding the ball; they are deflating it, crumpling it up, lighting it on fire, and spreading the ashes in the Pacific Ocean. We are more than three weeks into the "investigation," and the Secret Service hasn't even gotten around to talking to the local snipers who identified and reported that Crooks was stalking President Trump. 

One of those investigations is an internal “mission assurance” review, Mr. Rowe said.

As part of that review, the agency would interview the local snipers and other local officials present on July 13 after interviews with federal officials are completed, he said.

“We’ll look forward to interviewing them and definitely getting their side of the story,” Mr. Rowe said on Friday.

Rowe seems to think that repeating that he is sick in his heart that this happened, that the Secret Service is hurting, and that he takes "full responsibility" somehow is enough. Forget firing people. The Secret Service sounds like it will start an investigation sometime in the next few years, perhaps, but right now it is too sad and in mourning to get around to it. 

This was, by the way, the very first news conference held by the Secret Service since the attempt. That is three weeks of a news blackout. 

Will they get away with this coverup? 

Signs point to yes. The media is happy to let them off the hook as long as Rowe keeps expressing hollow contrition, and it is clear that the Biden Administration has no desire to press for answers. They probably got answers to the only question they cared about: why did Crooks miss?

Does that sound cynical? Maybe. But is it cynical enough? Probably not. I still mostly believe that Crooks wasn't recruited to do this, just given an opportunity by intentionally lax security. 

On the other hand, this was the first time that the Secret Service provided countersnipers, which rendered Crooks beyond questioning once he got off EIGHT SHOTS. Eight. 

President Trump would have been safer if only the local police and state troopers were in charge. Seriously. It's not like there was any advantage--beyond the president's personal detail--to having the Secret Service there. The Secret Service sniper who took Crooks out could be counted a benefit--but by the time he took Crooks out, the damage was done, and Crooks was done shooting. 

Rowe has to be suspended; he should be the SUBJECT of the investigation, not in charge of it. Somebody from the outside, or perhaps several somebodies who are well-respected, retired, and chosen independently of the administration, should be helicoptered in to get this investigated now. 

We already know the FBI is fatally compromised. Direct Wray has already lied before Congress about what he knew, when he knew it, and has expressed no interest in providing a useful hot wash of what happened. Nobody is. 

It is a coverup. Of what, we are not 100% sure. 

But they sure don't want the public to have answers.