Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appeared before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Monday, to answer questions about the failure of the Secret Service to prevent a shooting on July 13 that took the life of one man, injured two others, but that missed its target — Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president.
Cheatle called the incident the agency’s “most significant operational failure” in decades.
She said that there were security lapses, but she refused to answer specific questions of the committee, which is headed by Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican.
Comer said Cheatle’s agency has become the “face of incompetence.”
“Because Donald Trump is alive, and thank God he is, you look incompetent,” said Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner, who has called for President Joe Biden to fire Cheatle if she did not resign. “If Donald Trump had been killed, you would have looked culpable.”
Cheatle repeatedly told the committee that she is “unable to answer details” about how the shooting unfolded, due to the F.B.I. investigation under way.
Cheatle said that there were no requests by Trump for additional protection for the rally in Butler, Penn., where a man was able to get on top of a nearby roof and take several shots at Trump, nicking Trump’s ear but hitting people behind him before Secret Service snipers shot the assassin dead.
” I don’t understand how you can continue to stay in the position you’re in when this is a failure of historic magnitude,” said Republican Rep. Gary Palmer of Alabama, adding that nothing like the incident had happened since the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan 43 years ago. “You failed in this case in a spectacular way,” he said, adding that the incident put many lives in danger, including members of the Secret Service.
Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, asked Cheatle: “Now Director Cheatle, would you agree that this is the most serious security lapse since President Reagan was shot in 1981, of the Secret Service?
Cheatle responded, “Yes, sir, I would.”
Khanna continued: “Stewart Knight was in charge of the Secret Service [when Reagan was shot]. Do you know what he did afterwards?”
Cheatle responded, “He remained on duty.”
Khanna corrected her: “He resigned. He resigned.”
In a statement on the committee’s website, Rep. Comer called on Cheatle to resign.
“Given the historic security failures leading up to and during the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Chairman Comer called on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign in order to ensure accountability. Chairman Comer encouraged Americans of all political stripes to unite against extremism and political violence and concluded action must be taken to ensure this never happens again,” the statement reads.
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We are very lucky that this administration has not got us into a war or situation that we don’t need.
This and other things done by Biden has just about ruined this country.
Incompetence is their main objective.
One can disguise a whole lot of malice by appearing incompetent.
We are involved, deeply mind you, in a proxy war that’s costing us billions.
On the average (and only on the average) women are better suited than men in many occupations and activities. Being a Secret Service agent is not one of them. Its just a simple, undeniable, fact. Anyone offended by that fact views the world unrealistically.
I fully agree. Women don’t belong in combat and men don’t belong in women’s sports either.
Self evident propositions are not self evident to those on the left.
I (a woman) fully agree with you.
OK … (!!!)
So, everyone agrees that this is the “most significant operational failure.”
What exactly and specifically is the root cause?
How // Why did this happen on her shift?
What is being done to mitigate this now?
When can we expect accountability?
As a female, I expect a person to be “physically and mentally” ready to perform the job they are hired to do!!! A short stature should disqualify you for protecting a large person!!!
I would recruit small women to be cops, each w/ xlnt analytical skills, marksmanship skills and a touch of PMS. There would be no knife wielding idiots, no wrestling of the miscreant; nothing even close. Got a problem complying w/ authority? We have a solution for that.
“God created men and Sam Colt made them equal”.
Women, too.
Boom.
As to why this happened in the first place note that the rude b*tch that was grilling Ms. Cheatle was a huge part of the problem. We live in an environment where a good LEO arresting a roach like George Floyd can be wrongfully sent to prison and then stabbed. You can bet five bucks that whomever the Secret Service guys were that noticed the douche on the roof, they weren’t excited about being grilled over proactively responding to the threat and spending the next few years in prison getting shanked for their service in more ways than one.
Shakespear’s perspective wasn’t far from the mark concerning lawyers, particularly where political theater is concerned.
This woman is an agent for left radical Democrats. Not to be trusted. The alpha males in the SS hate her guts.
So the only person to get fired n Grandpa Bloodstains regime is, ironically, Grandpa Bloodstains.
The entire DEI menu is UN-REALITY. We’re talking about a group mindset where they have self-deceived themselves into believing that chix with dix are actually women. Maybe that will be their solution: since actual men are better at on-the-ground secret service activities as you so astutely pointed out (used to be everyone KNEW this), they can just hire a bunch of trannies (actual males) who will do the job best occupied by men and then call them women. Problem solved.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Don’t let her play this off as incompetence, when it is more likely intent. Hold her accountable and do not let her off with an excuse. She deserves prison time, not be allowed to resign and get some sweet book deal.
No More, and what of the big bag of Cocaine found in the Whitehouse? After an exhausting investigation the Secret Service couldn’t figure out who owned the stuff!
Reeks of cover up.
But then the Director and Jill Biden are friends.
When they keep us in the dark, people start to speculate to fill the void. SS needs to come clean. The “ongoing investigation” excuse is a cop out.
Logic fails entirely too many people on the left side of the political aisle. Here, let’s do a quick test.
If Statement A is true, does that mean that Statement B is also true?
STATEMENT A: There are women that are perfectly capable of providing security for a President (current or former)
STATEMENT B: All women are perfectly capable of providing security for a President.
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Obviously, Statement B is not true in all situations. Which means it is not true by a logical test. (And, not all men are capable of providing Presidential security either, so don’t start that…)
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DEI, and the people who support it, will tell you that a woman is just as capable as a man for performing whatever duties. And, they may be right…. for some women (and some men) and for some positions.
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However, they make the logical fault of assuming ALL women are just as capable as men, when it is just some women. But, in order to support diversity and equity, they will place incompetent women into positions they are not capable of doing.
Net result, serious failures. Not just in Presidential security, but what about pilots? CEOs? Doctors?
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The time has long past to start hiring people because of what they do, not because of what they are.
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