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| Secret Service Director Cheatle resigns |
| 2024-07-23 |
| [FoxNews] U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday in the wake of mounting pressure following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Fox News confirmed. Fox News reviewed the letter Cheatle sent to the U.S. Secret Service Tuesday morning, just a day after taking bipartisan heat during testimony before the House Oversight Committee Monday and over a week after a would-be assassin Thomas Crooks attempted to take the life of Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. "To the Men and Women of the U.S. Secret Service, The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders and financial infrastructure," Cheatle wrote in a letter to the agency. "On July 13th, we fell short on that mission." |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #12 Well, back to Warehouse 13 for her. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-07-23 23:09 |
| #11 Tyranny of the factions. Monroe called it the biggest threat to our Republic... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2024-07-23 21:34 |
| #10 Should the Democrats still control the Senate? Last I recall, there were only 48 Democrats, but three independents also voted with them, giving them something they could call a majority. Is that still true? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-07-23 18:17 |
| #9 Yes RE-- SIGNS a new contract to guard more conservative republican presidents and hopefuls! |
| Posted by: Jack+Creanter7508 2024-07-23 14:55 |
| #8 I don't understand why - it's not her fault Trump moved his head in the last second?/sarc off |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-07-23 14:22 |
| #7 One clown has fallen, but the clown army marches on. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2024-07-23 12:38 |
| #6 Regardless she can be brought back in to testify |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2024-07-23 12:18 |
| #5 I hope Republicans don't let her off the hook just because she resigned. It's way too easy for her to say it was a "lapse" and then think that she can walk away from it. The assassination attempt and her role in it need to be thoroughly investigated and if criminal charges are appropriate she needs to stand trial. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2024-07-23 12:13 |
| #4 She's had an opportunity to examine the preliminary reporting, which she avoided discussing yesterday. My guess is she's running to get off the drop zone before the really heavy drops arrive. She'll be in contact with Morgan & Morgan very soon. I see a possible Jeffrey Epstein solution looming. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-07-23 12:03 |
| #3 Strangely, Cheetos are a Pepsico product too. Pepsico, with its long history of I Hate America upper leadership remarks. High ranking member of government thought she was a perfect fit for a high director position. I'll guess she was insufferable but with a custom built whisper network so you had to take it. She obviously doesn't care (nor does the entire DEI theory) about her charges, basically taking someone like me and having me play center on the Chief's O-line during the Super Bowl. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-07-23 11:54 |
| #2 Of course this means the onerous struggle to replace her with some wandering asshat who is even MORE incompetent. If such a thing is even possible. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2024-07-23 11:51 |
| #1 "As your Director, I take full responsibility for the security lapse," A lapse is a missed detail like leaving a gate unlocked or failing to set an alarm. When the person you are protecting gets shot in the head, that is total mission failure. "I love this agency, our mission, and the great men and woken who sacrifice so much every day," Did she actually write "woken" instead of "women"? I cannot find the actual text of her letter online. Given the impression she made at the hearing, I wonder what she was like to work for when she was at Pepsi. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-07-23 11:26 |