Threat assessment expert weighs in on lawmaker security following attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar

Описание: (28 Jan 2026)
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Charlotte, NC - 28 November 2026
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Clumpner, President of Threat Suppression:
"Typically, when you have events like this, there's security in layers. Very common knowledge, will have several different rings and it's designed so if one ring fails, another ring will pick you up. And in this case, the person made it to the final ring and everything worked exactly how it should. Of course, after events like this, we always go back and we try and figure out, was there anything we could have done to prevent this? Was there anything that we could've done better? Events like this are usually torn up inside within agencies and they look to see if there was something that we can do better."

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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Clumpner, President of Threat Suppression:
"But we're trying to figure out if these people are disruptors or destructors, and this person at this event, you know, likely would fall in that category of a disruptor. A destructor is someone who wants to kill, injure, or maim people, and there's a very fine line between the two, and decisions have to be made instantaneously, whether this person is a disrupt or a destructor, because the mitigation path is different.

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Clumpner, President of Threat Suppression:
"But I certainly understand politicians want to be available. They don't want to cordoned off. They don't want to behind a, you know, fencing and stuff like that. They want to available. So it is a push pull on convenience and security. You know, and it's, it's tough. It's tough.

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Clumpner, President of Threat Suppression:
"When I was watching the video, you know what it distinctly reminded me of, for some reason? Um, the George Bush shoe shoe throwing incident. It reminded me of that one. It's like set up in like the same fashion, the same manner. And so there we had an incident where, you know, obviously one of the reporters took off his shoe and threw it at George Bush. And that was a major incident to have a shoe thrown at a president. Well, that happened to the president of the United States. So here we have a representative of Congress. And so it puts things kind of in a perspective to show you that even if you do have the best security in the world, someone who is determined to cause disruption or destruction can find ways to get in."

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Clumpner, President of Threat Suppression:
"The hardest thing that I really just want to stress is it is so hard to be right all the time in threat intelligence that the threateners just need one opportunity. That's all they need. And we've got to be able to stop them 999,000 times to the one. And it's it's difficult. It is it's very tough. And I know so many of these, especially federal agencies that do protective details, they're strapped with money. They don't have the resources. I mean, you're lucky if you get one or two members possibly assigned to you. It's tough. And now you go into these open air events. Now they're counting on local resources. And sometimes the local resources they're not available. You go to a small community, they may have four or five officers on duty. They can't provide 40 extra officers. So it's it is hard.

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Clumpner, President of Threat Suppression:

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