House Oversight panel subpoenas Secret Service director to testify on Trump assassination attempt
Rep. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, has issued a subpoena to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle compelling her to appear before the committee on Monday for what is scheduled to be the first congressional hearing into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Comer said initially that the Secret Service committed to her attendance but that Homeland Security officials appear to have intervened and there has been no 바카라 게임 웹사이트meaningful updates or information바카라 게임 웹사이트 shared with the committee.
Comer said the 바카라 게임 웹사이트lack of transparency and failure to cooperate바카라 게임 웹사이트 with the committee called into question Cheatle's ability to lead the Secret Service and necessitates the subpoena.
Cheatle has said the agency understands the importance of a review ordered by Democratic President Joe Biden and would fully participate in it as well as with congressional committees looking into the shooting.
바카라 게임 웹사이트The assassination attempt of the former President and current Republican nominee for president represents a total failure of the agency's core mission and demands Congressional oversight,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Comer wrote in a letter to Cheatle.
The subpoena was just one of a series of developments that occurred Wednesday in the wake of the Saturday assassination attempt. Earlier, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he would be setting up a task force to investigate security failures that occurred during the assassination attempt. He also said he would be calling on Cheatle to resign from her post as director of the Secret Service, saying on Fox 온라인 바카라 게임 Channel without elaborating, 바카라 게임 웹사이트I think she바카라 게임 웹사이트s shown what her priorities are.바카라 게임 웹사이트
He said the task force would be made up of Republicans and Democrats and its formation would speed up the investigative process.
바카라 게임 웹사이트There바카라 게임 웹사이트s not a lot of the procedural hurdles, and we바카라 게임 웹사이트ll have subpoena authority for that task force as well,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Johnson said.
Johnson said he has not received satisfactory answers from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas or leaders at the FBI.
바카라 게임 웹사이트We must have accountability for this. It was inexcusable,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Johnson said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트Obviously, there were security lapses. You don바카라 게임 웹사이트t have to be a special ops expert to understand that. And we바카라 게임 웹사이트re going to get down to the bottom of it quickly.바카라 게임 웹사이트
The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general also said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into the Secret Service바카라 게임 웹사이트s handling of security for Trump on the day a gunman tried to assassinate him at his Pennsylvania rally.
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In a brief notice posted to the inspector general바카라 게임 웹사이트s website, the agency said the objective of the probe is to 바카라 게임 웹사이트Evaluate the United States Secret Service바카라 게임 웹사이트s (Secret Service) process for securing former President Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s July 13, 2024 campaign event.바카라 게임 웹사이트
There was no date given for when the investigation was launched. The notice was among a long list of ongoing cases that the inspector general바카라 게임 웹사이트s office is pursuing.
Biden already had directed an independent review of the security at the rally.
The shooting has raised questions about how the gunman was able to climb onto a roof with a clear line of sight to the former president, who said he was shot in the ear.
The 20-year-old shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was able to get within 135 meters of the stage where the Republican former president was speaking when he opened fire. That바카라 게임 웹사이트s despite a threat on Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s life from Iran leading to additional security for the former president in the days before the Saturday rally.
A bloodied Trump was quickly escorted off the stage by Secret Service agents, and agency snipers killed the shooter. Trump said the upper part of his right ear was pierced in the shooting. One rallygoer was killed, and two others critically wounded.
Cheatle said her agency was working to understand how Saturday바카라 게임 웹사이트s shooting happened and to make sure something like it never does again.
The agency of roughly 7,800 staff members is responsible for protecting presidents, vice presidents, their families, former presidents, their spouses and their minor children under the age of 16 and a few other high-level Cabinet officials such as the Homeland Security secretary.