Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned from her post on Tuesday after a colossal failure that nearly ended in the assassination of former President Donald Trump, but many questions about the violent incident remain unanswered.
“I have made the difficult decision to step down as your Director,” she wrote in an internal letter to the Secret Service following Monday’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing in which members from both sides of the aisle went after Cheatle.
“While Director Cheatle’s resignation is a step toward accountability, we need a full review of how these security failures happened so that we can prevent them going forward,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement.
Cheatle conceded that the Secret Service “failed to protect our nation’s leaders.”
Throughout Monday’s hearing, Cheatle continuously deferred to the FBI or claimed she was not allowed to speak on the matter because it was a “pending investigation.”
The Secret Service has a “zero fail mission,” yet a week and a half ago, the nation witnessed the most catastrophic failure since the near-assassination of former President Ronald Reagan. And still, critical questions remain unanswered by the agency and Cheatle.
Who decided what the perimeter was? Why didn’t the perimeter include a nearly flat rooftop within 150 yards of the rally stage? Were any personnel or resource changes made when law enforcement apparently didn’t have enough manpower to secure the roof that the shooter used? Why did the Secret Service originally lie
