This is all going to be heavily scrutinized. But remember that if you're a Secret Service agent and you have permission to kill, you have to make sure that that target is an absolute threat. And he might have only seen the head of a person on the edge of a rooftop at a distance. And he might not have seen the rifle or the muzzle flash until that person fired. And it seems to me like the Secret Service reaction there was pretty rapid, but this will all be.

The second problem is that Alex talked to the Secret Service about this Phil Mudd interview, and they did nothing about it, which clearly indicates that the Secret Service did not think that this was anything serious, and it was really just a guy talking shit on TV. You would think if there was an actual instance of Phil Mudd announcing a coup on TV and Alex briefed the Secret Service about it, Mudd should have had some consequences.