At 6:11 p.m. on July 13, 2024, Thomas Crooks fired eight shots from the roof of the American Glass Research International complex in Butler, Pennsylvania — 155 yards from the stage where President Trump was speaking. At that exact moment, a Secret Service counter drone operator was still searching the internet trying to figure out where the AGR building was.

Not radioing for directions. Not asking the local cops standing nearby. Googling it.

A 64-page report from the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, released Thursday, lays out a timeline so staggering it reads less like an agency failure and more like a script for a comedy of errors — except a retired volunteer fire chief named Corey Comperatore is dead, two other rallygoers were seriously wounded, and the President of the United States took a bullet fragment to the ear.

The IG report found that the Secret Service "missed multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt" the assassination attempt. That language is clinical. The facts behind it are anything but.

Local law enforcement flagged Crooks as suspicious nearly thirty minutes before the shooting. At 5:42 p.m., a radio transmission warned that a "younger white male long hair lurking around the AGR building" had been "viewed with a rangefinder sighting the stage." By 6:08 p.m., local police were on the radio again: "I have someone on the roof with white shorts." At 6:09 — two minutes before the gunfire — local law enforcement called the Secret Service directly, warning them of a suspicious person on the AGR complex roof.

The protective detail around President Trump never got the message. Not the 5:42 warning. Not the 6:08 sighting. Not the 6:09 call. According to the report, 102 radio transmissions about the gunman went unheard by Secret Service — because no joint communications room had been established between the Secret Service and local law enforcement at the event.

One hundred and two transmissions. A rangefinder sighting. A man on a roof with a rifle. And the counter drone operator assigned to the area couldn't find the building on a map without pulling up a search engine.

"Instead of asking local law enforcement personnel for the AGR complex's location, the counter drone operator searched online for it, and was still searching when Crooks fired his first shots," the DHS report states.

The report also reveals that a proposal to position trucks to block the line of sight from the AGR building to the stage was rejected. The reason? Trump campaign staff said it would be "too close to [President Trump's] press shot." A cosmetic concern overrode a security measure that might have physically blocked the very angle Crooks used.

The IG report identifies the lead Secret Service agent at the Butler event as Miyo Perez, described as relatively inexperienced for a site of that magnitude. The security plan for the rally was signed off on by Sean Curran — who now serves as Director of the U.S. Secret Service. Multiple agents have since been suspended without pay.

The Secret Service has pointed to corrective actions taken since the shooting. But the IG report concludes that "the Secret Service's overall lack of policy and processes, coupled with limited intelligence sharing and poor collaboration and communication with protectee staff and state and local law enforcement, set the conditions that led to missing opportunities to prevent and detect the attempted assassination."

That's not a rogue agent problem. That's not a one-off communication glitch. That's a systemic description of an agency that failed at its single most important job — keeping the President alive — because its own people couldn't talk to each other, couldn't find a building on a map, and prioritized camera angles over rifle angles.

Corey Comperatore threw himself over his family when the shots started. He knew exactly where the danger was. The Secret Service had thirty minutes of warnings, 102 radio transmissions, and a search engine — and still couldn't figure it out.