Author: Jim Quigley

Rep. Keating says Trump assassination attempt was “serious lapse” by Secret Service

BOSTON – The country is still reeling from the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Senator Ed Markey expressed his concerns about the shooting on Tuesday. “Thank God he survived,” Senator Markey said on Cape Cod. “What a tragedy that it has occurred.”

Law enforcement officials told CBS News that moments before the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, a police sniper spotted the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthews Crooks, sitting outside of the building he used in his attack, and took a picture of him. 

After Crooks was seen looking through a rangefinder, the police sniper immediately alerted the command post. Crooks was spotted again with a backpack, and police backup was called — but by the time officers responded, Crooks had scaled the building and positioned himself above and behind the local snipers inside the building.

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An FSB meeting, Steven Seagal, and spies everywhere: The story of how Bill Keating investigated a Boston Marathon bomber in Russia

WASHINGTON — Representative Bill Keating was scribbling furiously in his FSB-branded notebook.

The Bourne Democrat was in a brightly lit conference room in Russian government offices in Moscow in May 2013, sitting at a table across the room from three rows of Russian intelligence officials and officeholders. Alexander Bortnikov, director of the FSB, Russia’s top security service, was reading to Keating and a small congressional delegation a list of dates, times, and communications it had collected about one of the Boston Marathon bombers.



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Affordable housing is an issue in the SouthCoast. This group wants to help.

Kathryn Gallerani
Standard-Times

DARTMOUTH — With housing a fundamental need, it’s vital to share the programs and other resources available to help residents struggling to find and maintain a place to live, but some say it can be challenging to get the word out to the people who need help. 

Congressman Bill Keating said that’s why he convened the Southcoast Affordable Housing Forum hosted by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Wednesday afternoon, focusing, he said, on the adults and children at risk of homelessness and the homeless population.  

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Keating on Immigration Reform, Martha’s Vineyard Response to DeSantis

Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis thrusted Martha’s Vineyard into the forefront of the conversation immigration policy by chartering flights to send 50 Venezuelan migrants to Edgartown.

Democrat Congressman Bill Keating, who represents most of Southeastern Massachusetts as well the Cape and Islands in Congress, lauded the islanders for responding rapidly and with overwhelming support and solidarity.



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