Tag Archives: Secret Service

USA Today reports: Secret Service personnel shot an armed man near the White House early Sunday, hours after obtaining information that a suicidal man might be traveling to Washington, D.C., from Indiana, authorities said. Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement that the shooting took place “following an armed confrontation” with law enforcement. The statement said Secret Service …

CNN reports: The United States Secret Service tapped blockbuster movie director Michael Bay to create a recruiting advertisement that aired during the Super Bowl Sunday. The ad cost an estimated $2 million for the Secret Service to produce – a hefty price tag that comes amid massive budget cuts and layoffs at other government agencies. The thrust of the ad …

CNN reports: Donald Trump is considering a right-wing media personality, people who have served on his US Secret Service detail, as well as others to run the agency that has been plagued by its failure to preempt two alleged assassination attempts on Trump this summer, sources familiar with the president-elect’s thinking tell CNN. Podcaster Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service …

The Washington Post reports: An independent panel called Thursday for new leadership at the Secret Service, hired mostly from outside the protective agency, saying it needs a major shake-up or security failures such as the July 13 shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania “can and will happen again.” The bipartisan panel, ordered by President Joe Biden to review the …

The Hill reports reports: The House task force investigating the assassination attempts against former President Trump will hold its first hearing Thursday morning, focused on the shooting at Trump’s July rally in Butler, Pa. The hearing will narrow in on the “Secret Service’s Reliance on State and Local Law Enforcement” at the campaign event where a gunman opened fire. The …

The Associated Press reports: Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day,” according to a bipartisan Senate investigation released Wednesday. Similar to the agency’s own internal investigation and an ongoing bipartisan House probe, …

The New York Times reports: A Secret Service internal review of the failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pa., found that agents did not have the necessary discussions about how a complex of warehouses surrounding the site should be protected. The most glaring of the agency’s …

Bloomberg News reports: Musk may have poked the bear one too many times. On Sunday, shortly after the second assassination attempt on Trump, Musk responded to his 198 million followers: “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.” FOIA Files sent Freedom of Information Act requests to the Secret Service’s Protective Intelligence and Assessment Division, Office of Protective Operations …

The New York Times reports: Investigators say the man who appeared to have been planning to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump with a rifle waited near a golf course for about 12 hours before he was spotted by the Secret Service. According to a criminal complaint released Monday, the man faces two federal gun charges: possessing a firearm as …

CBS News reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his third-party presidential bid last week and endorsed former President Donald Trump, has lost his Secret Service protection following the decision to leave the race, his campaign said. “Mr. Kennedy no longer has USSS,” Stefanie Spear, Kennedy’s press secretary, told CBS News. The Secret Service is required by law to protect …

CBS News reports: The U.S. Secret Service has placed multiple agents on leave, including the head of the Pittsburgh field office, as a result of its investigation into last month’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Secret Service’s internal affairs division is continuing to investigate how a 20-year-old gunman was …

Axios reports: A House Democrat is introducing legislation that would cleave off the Secret Service’s original mission of investigating financial crimes and have the agency focus solely on protecting political leaders, Axios has learned. It is an idea that has been floated for years and has recently received bipartisan support in the aftermath of last month’s assassination attempt against former …

PBS NewsHour reports: The U.S. Secret Service will hold news briefing on Friday on its response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The event is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. ET. The briefing comes as more Americans express doubt about the Secret Service’s ability to keep presidential candidates safe, a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC …

CNN reports: Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe will tell senators from the Homeland Security and Judiciary committees that the he can’t explain or defend the security failures on July 13, according to prepared remarks released late Monday. According to the remarks, Rowe has directed the Secret Service to have multiple experienced supervisors go through each security plan for all …

The New York Times reports: The officer noticed a young man with long stringy hair sitting on a picnic table near the warehouse. So at 4:26 p.m., he texted his colleagues about the man, who was outside the fenced area of the Butler Fair Show grounds where Mr. Trump was to appear. He said that the person would have seen …

ABC News reports: The local SWAT team assigned to help protect former President Donald Trump on July 13 had not had any contact with the Secret Service agents in charge of security before a would-be assassin opened fire, those officers told ABC News. It was a critical part of the planning and communications failures that ended with a gunman killing …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, reportedly has a new Secret Service codename: Bobcat. A longtime friend of the vice presidential candidate told The Daily Mail that the moniker is a nod to his roots in Ohio and Kentucky—the Bobcats serve as mascots for both Ohio University and the high school sports teams in Jackson, …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump plans to stop holding outdoor rallies like the one where he was shot during an assassination attempt this month in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to two sources familiar with his campaign’s operations. The sources said current plans are to hold indoor rallies, but they also said it’s possible Trump will participate in smaller outdoor …

The Washington Post reports: Secret Service officials encouraged Donald Trump’s campaign to stop scheduling large outdoor rallies and other outdoor events with big crowds after the assassination attempt on the former president in Butler, Pa. In the aftermath of the shooting, agents from the Secret Service communicated their concerns about large outdoor rallies going forward to Trump campaign advisers. For …

CNBC reports: U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday following widespread outrage over how her agency failed to prevent the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally earlier this month. Cheatle’s resignation, as first reported by NBC News citing sources, came a day after she was blasted by members of a House committee at …