{"id":1478870,"date":"2024-07-23T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1478870"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:31:52","slug":"secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-resigns\/1478870\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Resigns<\/span><\/p>\n

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US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned, one day after a contentious session with House lawmakers over security failures that facilitated the assassination attempt on Donald Trump <\/strong>on July 13, both NBC<\/em> and ABC <\/em>News report.<\/p>\n

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BREAKING@JuliaEAinsley<\/a> reports
\nTwo law enforcement sources tell NBC News Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned. And an official announcement is coming later this morning<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) July 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Her resignation comes after a bipartisan grilling on Monday, with numerous Republicans and at least one Democrat lawmaker demanding she resign<\/strong>, as her agency fell short of its “zero-fail mission.”<\/p>\n

Kimberly Cheatle testifies that the roof 150 yards from the podium was \u201coutside of the perimeter”pic.twitter.com\/cpJQ5Oufhz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Cheatle’s testimony came after a Sunday night announcement from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the DOJ was forming an independent review panel charged with examining the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, Mayorkas and Biden are ‘grateful’ to Cheatle for her ‘decades of public service,’ which was great aside from that whole almost getting Trump killed thing.<\/p>\n

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In one notably heated exchange on Monday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) told Cheatle that she was ‘full of shit today,’<\/strong> after Cheatle continued to give vague, or no, answers to pointed questions.<\/p>\n

.@NancyMace<\/a> did NOT come to play today!<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re full of SHIT today!\u201d<\/p>\n

THIS IS HOW YOU HANDLE THESE PEOPLE! pic.twitter.com\/b2K9SlGNAt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

We also learned yesterday that the Secret Service has no recordings<\/em> of radio communications from the 13th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the end of January 2021, USSS deleted texts of 2 dozen agents\/officials related to Jan 6. They\u2019ve never been recovered. L<\/p>\n

\u2014 Julie Kelly \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@julie_kelly2) July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

She also admitted to using encrypted apps on her personal phone to conduct official business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Bloody Hell<\/p>\n

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle just said that she uses encrypted apps on her personal cell phone to speak to colleagues in the federal government and overseas<\/p>\n

Rep. Eric Burlinson is stunned, and states this might be a federal crime<\/p>\n

Cheatle hurriedly then\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/qZHT3z2So5<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

During one exchange with California Democrat Ro Khana, Cheatle didn’t realize that a former Secret Service Director <\/strong>in charge during the Reagan assassination attempt stepped down<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Omg Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle just got embarrassed by California Dem Ro Khanna for not knowing the history of the agency she runs<\/p>\n

“You know what Stuart Knight did after [Regan’s assassination attempt]?”<\/p>\n

“He remained on duty.”<\/p>\n

“He resigned. He resigned.” pic.twitter.com\/8RZ9iTYPeK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

The unusual Sunday night announcement from Mayorkas <\/strong>came about 12 hours before Cheatle’s 10 am Monday appearance<\/a> before the House Oversight Committee, which Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has touted as “must-watch TV,” telling CNN, “She’s got a lot to answer for. And those concerns are bipartisan<\/a>.”\u00a0Underscoring that notion, Oversight Committee member and Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle has already demanded that Cheatle resign,<\/strong> via a statement<\/a> released Saturday.<\/p>\n

That\u00a0panel has been given 45 days to perform its review<\/a>. While new experts may be added shortly, it\u00a0initially has<\/a> four members:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Obama Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fran Townsend<\/strong>, a homeland security advisor to President George W. Bush<\/p>\n

Mark Filip<\/strong>, who was deputy attorney general to George W. Bush<\/p>\n

David Mitchell<\/strong>, former Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the State of Delaware<\/p>\n

Damning information about the Secret Service’s handling of Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania continues to emerge<\/strong>. On Saturday, the agency was caught in a lie<\/strong>: Having repeatedly denied that\u00a0Trump’s campaign was denied additional security resources it had requested, the agency was exposed as having done just that<\/a>, via a report from the Washington Post<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Friday, the world learned that\u00a0would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was able to fly a drone over the event<\/a> site just a few hours before he opened fire.\u00a0The Secret Service typically bans drone flights at secured sites; but\u00a0it’s unclear if such a prohibition was at least nominally imposed at the rally.<\/p>\n

Crooks was identified as a suspicious individual more than an hour before he opened fire<\/strong>\u00a0from a rooftop only about 450 feet from Trump’s podium. At the time, he’d already been\u00a0observed in possession of a range finder<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0carrying a duffel bag<\/a>. Later, he was\u00a0spotted on a rooftop 20 minutes before all hell broke loose. As it did, female agents assigned to the DEI-focused<\/a> protective detail appeared to falter under fire<\/strong> — even struggling with holstering a weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the shooting, Cheatle’s credibility took a sharp downturn when, asked why no Secret Service agent was posted atop ideal sniper roost used by the shooter, she told<\/a> ABC<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there\u2019s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn\u2019t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof<\/strong>.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

SS sloped roof division. \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 pic.twitter.com\/dHgFCVrlFz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud835\udcd2\ud835\udcf1\ud835\udcea\ud835\udced\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud835\udcd7\ud835\udcea\ud835\udcfb\ud835\udcfb\ud835\udcf2\ud835\udcfc\ud835\udcf8\ud835\udcf7\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Texas_jeep__guy) July 20, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Aaaaand, she’s gone.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 07\/23\/2024 – 10:31<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle-resigns<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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