“24 hours later, the FBI has scrubbed the scene with a power washer and within 30 days, they cremated the shooter. Gee, all the evidence is gone.”

Your conclusion would not be my “go to” first choice, but one cannot dismiss it, either.

In the military, we all understood the phrase, “We must all be on the same page” was a re-statement of the old Japanese sobriquet, “The nail that sticks up gets hammered”.

I personally doubt, very strongly doubt, that your experience has anything to do with what the USSS is doing here.

I doubt it because I will never be convinced that the USSS, the FBI, and the ATF were not intimately involved in the assassinations attempt. They found the shooter, groomed him, sold him a bill of goods that the scene would be prepped and then the bomb in his vehicle would provide cover for a getaway. Then they let him get on-scene, replace the usual understaffed detail with people who’d had 45 minutes of virtual training on asset protection, and let him get off eight shots before a local cop shot at him, hit the rifle, and the USSS counter-sniper team had to shoot him.

24 hours later, the FBI has scrubbed the scene with a power washer and within 30 days, they cremated the shooter. Gee, all the evidence is gone.

This is a nothing burger. All federal agencies prohibit answering questions, without first being granted permission to do so. Indeed, that policy allows an agency to discipline a “whistle blower”. No, an agency cannot take adverse action against a formal “whistle blower”, but in 2007, the USSC ruled that a government employee CAN be disciplined for unauthorized communication.

Note: While a govt employee, I did “hear” that a person could individually talk to an outsider, so long as an agency PIO, or lawyer, was present to control the conversation.

All that may have changed since I left govt service a decade ato.

Used to have a supervisor who would say we all need to sing from the same sheet of music. That usually meant someone higher up was coming to visit.

They posted a guard there until their investigation was complete. Yet, they did not post a guard at the Las Vegas shooter’s house until that investigation was complete. His house was broken into after the shooting. Weird.