US Congress questions Secret Service boss on 'failed' Donald Trump rally security | BBC News

Republican members of Congress are focusing on the role of the Secret Service, as their frustration and anger grow over the agency's response to an attempt to assassinate presidential nominee Donald Trump.

During a House committee hearing US Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle described the shooting was "the most significant operational failure at the Secret Service in decades".

Ms Cheatle's agency is tasked with providing protection to the president and his family, former presidents, those in line to the White House and other political candidates.

Republicans, who control the House, have been unified in pushing for Ms Cheatle to step down - or be fired - after a 20-year-old gunman was able to shoot the former president in the ear at the 13 July rally.



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[michaelogden]

The stonewalling by Ms. Cheatle was astonishing. Absolutely brazen.

[neondarknessor]

She needs to be fired and not just questioned. She is terrible at her job.🧐

[MG-iyoh]

0:38 yeah, exactly, so resign, then!

[GreatGooglieWooglie]

Why doesn’t she have the decency to resign????

[ramsg]

The shameless boss should resign as she accepts her failure.

[rcsvgdj]

She said we failed, NO YOU FAILED . She was the boss & leader SHE the only one who Failed. Has has no clue on anything except for she uses encrypted messaging... Did the shooter

[JohnJaggerJack]

What is this "we failed" you're talking about? Dont drag others into your death-spiral, keep it to yourself.

[Bizarro]

Very odd.

If his head was blown off would she be still waffling on about learning what happened?

[SirJimmySavileOBEKCSG]

Biden gave Trump short diversity hires!

[catwbongos]

Seems like they did NOT learn from JFK

[RT-NewZ_android-APpk]

'In science 🔬many question may never be answered.
In US 🤡politics many answers may never be questioned. '

[Oxo]

DEI fails. DEI on BBC and Sky News re presenters and summarizers will also fail.

[victorparr]

Do you in England have an American show called THE FIRST 48 HOURS .But the SS needs 60 day to solve the assassination attack on a president WTF.

[TheEARofTRUMP]

She didn't answer 1 and everyone i that building got paid to be there....

[shawnduddridge]

Any citizen who committed even a petty crime compared to this would be stood down, isolated and interrogated in a cell.. why does America not have any agency capable of doing this, and can you even call the country a law abiding democracy in this case???

[googlebob]

Forget about waiting for her to resign. Whoever hired her must fire her immediately

[ThickBanana]

The Secret Service will become better after all of this with refined processes to address the massive breakdown that happened.

[keith]

She should resign if not she should be sacked for her incompetence

[hitpat]

'Failed' does not mean 'sacking'...in amrika!! I personally think the blacks law dictionary (what the court uses- a twisted book) might need to change its definition on the word 'failure'.

In the context of things...she won, keep her job & probably would have got a HUGE bonus payout...if things went to plan!! Question is... who would pay her that bonus & in which encrypted account would she use???

[veenalouis]

She will be only questioned No action will be taken, so why worry anyways