The Secret Service failed to make clear decisions and did not communicate properly with local law enforcement or provide necessary resources that caused “foreseeable, preventable” security failings on July 13, when a would-be assassin opened fire on former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a new Senate committee report.The highly anticipated interim report was released by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee by both Republicans and Democrats and reflects the work of the committee since it opened its probe following the Butler attack.This report focuses on the Butler shooting and does not extend to investigatory efforts launched after a separate second assassination attempt on the former president at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, earlier this month.Since the Butler attack, acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe has acknowledged that the event was a “failure” by the agency, but the committee, which interviewed multiple Secret Service personnel, found that individuals “declined to acknowledge individual areas of responsibility for planning or security as having contributed to the failure to prevent the shooting that day, even when as an agency, the USSS has acknowledged ultimate responsibility for the failure to prevent the former president of the United States from being shot.”US Senator from Michigan Gary Peters speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, August 20, 2024.Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty ImagesOn a call with reporters, Senate Homeland Security Chairman Gary Peters pointed to several failures by the Secret Service.MORE: Lack of communication, drone issues plagued Secret Service at Trump Pennsylvania rally: Report“Every single one of those failures was preventable and the consequences of those failures were dire,” Peters said.“This was the first assassination attempt of a former president and the pr...