{"id":2300140,"date":"2024-07-19T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T04:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burchett-secret-service-chief-must-answer-for-protection-failure\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T00:39:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T04:39:19","slug":"burchett-demands-accountability-from-secret-service-chief-for-protection-failure-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burchett-demands-accountability-from-secret-service-chief-for-protection-failure-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Burchett demands accountability from Secret Service Chief for protection failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fburchett-demands-accountability-from-secret-service-chief-for-protection-failure-13%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2300140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. Secret Service chief is facing \u200ddemands \u200cto appear before the \u200bHouse \u2062Oversight and Accountability \u2064Committee following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burchett-demands-accountability-from-secret-service-chief-for-protection-failure-2\/\" title=\"Burchett demands accountability from Secret Service Chief for protection failure\">fatal failures leading<\/a> up \u200bto an assassination attempt on\u2062 former President Donald \u2063Trump. Secret Service Director Kimberly\u2063 Cheatle has been subpoenaed, \u2064and there are threats to bring her in by force if necessary. Republican lawmakers are calling for consequences if she does not comply. The Biden administration&#8217;s refusal to respond\u200b to congressional \u2064subpoenas has added to the tension. Cheatle has refused to step down despite pressure from\u2064 Republicans, and senators have confronted her at the \u200bRepublican National Convention. A briefing provided by Cheatle and FBI Director\u200c Christopher Wray infuriated lawmakers, revealing that Secret Service\u2062 sharpshooters saw the\u200b gunman before the assassination attempt but failed to act. \u200cSenators have expressed concerns about the lack of transparency and accountability in the \u200binvestigation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MILWAUKEE &mdash; The embattled U.S. Secret Service chief can run, but she can&rsquo;t hide from the agency&rsquo;s fatal failures leading up to and in the moment of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/burchett.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tim Burchett<\/a>, R-Tenn., tells me that there must be consequences if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretservice.gov\/about\/leadership\/director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle<\/a> doesn&rsquo;t appear Monday before the House <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oversight and Accountability Committee<\/a> as ordered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She&rsquo;s subpoenaed, and I would say if she does not show up, we bring her in &mdash; by force if necessary,&rdquo; said Burchett, a member of the Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/comer.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Comer<\/a>, R-Ky., on Wednesday issued the subpoena to the recalcitrant Secret Service director.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Americans demand accountability and transparency about the Secret Service&rsquo;s failures that led to the attempted assassination of President Trump, but they aren&rsquo;t getting that from President Biden&rsquo;s Department of Homeland Security,&rdquo; Comer said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-subpoenas-secret-service-director-for-testimony-on-attempted-assassination-of-president-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>. &ldquo;We have many questions for Director Cheatle about the Secret Service&rsquo;s historic failure and she must appear before the House Oversight Committee next week.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/01\/15-secretaries-blow-off-congressional-subpoenas-while-subpoena-refusal-lands-trump-adviser-in-jail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hasn&rsquo;t been good at obeying congressional subpoenas,<\/a> even as the Justice Department goes about throwing conservatives in jail for doing the same. (See former Trump aide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/19\/politics\/peter-navarro-jail-contempt-of-congress\/index.html#:~:text=Navarro%20was%20sentenced%20to%20four,%2C%202021%2C%20US%20Capitol%20attack.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peter Navarro<\/a> and former Trump adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/19\/politics\/peter-navarro-jail-contempt-of-congress\/index.html#:~:text=Navarro%20was%20sentenced%20to%20four,%2C%202021%2C%20US%20Capitol%20attack.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steve Bannon<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;You&rsquo;re Supposed to Protect the President&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Cheatle has refused to step down as Republicans demand that Biden fire the evasive security chief. Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4779919-speaker-johnson-calls-on-biden-to-fire-kimberly-cheatle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> he was &ldquo;prepared&rdquo; to call on the president to sack Cheatle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sens. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrasso.senate.gov\/public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Barrasso<\/a>, R-Wyo., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marsha Blackburn<\/a>, R-Tenn., and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cramer.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kevin Cramer<\/a>, R-N.D., confronted Cheatle Wednesday evening while she was on-site at the Republican National Convention in downtown Milwaukee. She refused to answer the questions of the senators, who surrounded her outside a hospitality suite at the Fiserv Forum. At one point, as caught on a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VoteMarsha\/status\/1813754599276413035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1813754599276413035%7Ctwgr%5E6ba486ff1586a3ac3cfd0b42820b010eff517b41%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2024\/07\/18\/i-dont-see-how-she-survives-senator-says-secret-service-chiefs-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a> that has since gone viral, Cheatle and others turn from the senators and briskly walk away. The senators follow behind the Secret Service director, with Cramer catching up to her and telling her, &ldquo;You answer to us.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no shame. There&rsquo;s no concern. You&rsquo;re supposed to protect the president of the United States,&rdquo; Barrasso says on the video.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Republican lawmakers were furious following a briefing from Cheatle and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Cheatle and Wray provided senators a timeline that remarkably revealed that Secret Service sharpshooters first saw the gunman on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/burchett-demands-accountability-from-secret-service-chief-for-protection-failure\/\" title=\"Burchett demands accountability from Secret Service Chief for protection failure\">slanted rooftop 20 minutes<\/a> before the moment he attempted to murder Trump, law enforcement officials <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/secret-service-boss-shes-resigning-after-senators-confront\/story?id=112061934\">told<\/a> ABC News. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Shattered Faith<\/h2>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., whose swing state is hosting this week&rsquo;s Republican National Convention, told me that only four lawmakers were allowed to pose questions, without follow-ups. He said the limited session was filled with &ldquo;gobbledygook&rdquo; and &ldquo;bureaucratic B.S.&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The director admitted that there were mistakes and gaffes. They went through a timeline but glossed over the shooting. They didn&rsquo;t provide any detail in terms of when they found out about the shooter,&rdquo; Johnson said Thursday between convention speeches. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s very concerned the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the committee that he chaired before Democrats took control of the Senate in 2021, will do nothing to get answers and hold Biden administration officials accountable. Johnson said if he were chairman, he&rsquo;d be calling in Secret Service agents at the scene, particularly the snipers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d interview them and transcribe their testimony immediately before memories fade,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We need to do that. We need independence on this. I have no power to do it, and that&rsquo;s frustrating to me having been chairman.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Morgan, former acting head of Customs and Border Protection in the Trump administration, is calling for the creation of a bipartisan commission to look into the assassination attempt. He told Fox News Digital that the public has lost trust in federal agencies. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Here&rsquo;s the reality that we have to face for those of us who were past and even those that are currently involved in these agencies. &hellip; America&rsquo;s trust in the Department of Justice, the FBI, Congress, it has dropped precipitously the past few years. That&rsquo;s just the reality,&rdquo; Morgan, who served 20 years with the FBI, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ex-dhs-fbi-official-demands-overhaul-trump-shooting-probe-colossal-security-failure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-73976-ballots-released-by-maricopa-county-56-1-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"BREAKING: 73,976 Ballots Released By Maricopa County \u2014 56.1% FOR DONALD TRUMP\">news outlet<\/a><\/a> this week. Biden has ordered an &ldquo;independent&rdquo; investigation. His FBI also is investigating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Morgan said he&rsquo;d like to see Johnson lead the independent commission. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Burchett said he&rsquo;s not holding his breath that Cheatle will show up to Monday&rsquo;s Oversight Committee hearing. If she does, he&rsquo;s doubtful the Secret Service director will answer questions. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If she had any integrity whatsoever, she would resign,&rdquo; Johnson said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Service chief is facing criticism for the agency&#8217;s failures leading up to and during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. There are calls for consequences if she does not appear before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee as ordered. The Biden administration has been criticized for not obeying congressional subpoenas, while demanding accountability from others. Republican lawmakers are demanding answers and accountability from the Secret Service director. There are calls for an independent commission to investigate the assassination attempt. There are doubts about the director&#8217;s integrity and willingness to answer questions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2300141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Copy-of-Untitled-45.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8049,35538,4368,35539,35220],"class_list":["post-2300140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-accountability","tag-burchett","tag-demand","tag-protection-failure","tag-secret-service-chief"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Copy-of-Untitled-45.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}