Howie Kurtz on the security failures surrounding a third assassination attempt on President Trump at the Washington Hilton, the Justice Department’s decision to drop its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, and the firing of the Stars and Stripes ombudsman amid allegations of Pentagon interference with editorial independence.
As Howie puts it: “In an instant, the 2,000 journalists there went from covering this thing… to being not only eyewitnesses, but potential victims of this crazed gunman.”
