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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is covered by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Secret Service needs overhaul, director from outside agency, says independent review panel

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) **FILE**

Schumer says Congress will provide more money to Secret Service if necessary

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Secret Service illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

The Secret Service has a cultural problem

By Ronald Kessler

U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe, testifies before a Joint Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing examining the security failures leading to the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 30, 2024 in Washington.. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Senators knock Secret Service for making local cops ‘scapegoat’ for Trump assassination attempt

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

U.S. Secret Service acting Director Ronald Rowe, left, and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate are sworn in before they testify before a Joint Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing examining the security failures leading to the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Acting Secret Service boss says he ‘cannot defend’ why roof in Trump rally shooting was unsecured

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, listens as U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Secret Service and FBI officials will testify about Trump assassination attempt in latest hearing

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania that also saw one rallygoer killed and two others seriously wounded, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 22, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Oversight panel grills Secret Service director on security failures in Trump assassination attempt

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle attends a news conference, June 4, 2024, in Chicago. Cheatle and the Secret Service are under intense scrutiny following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally Saturday, July 13, in Pennsylvania. He was injured and people across the political spectrum are wondering how a gunman could get so close to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee when he was supposed to be carefully guarded. Cheatle has talked about how the Secret Service has a “zero fail mission.” (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Secret Service chief noted a ‘zero fail mission.’ After Trump rally, she’s facing calls to resign

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he leaves the stage at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Secret Service leader says her team was ‘totally responsible’ for Trump’s near-assassination

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Police snipers return fire after shots were fired while Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Blunders stir up doubts about Secret Service; Republicans see stonewalling on answers

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Secret Service at center of ‘failure’ to prevent assassination attempt

By Stephen Dinan and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden's dog Commander looks out from the balcony during a pardoning ceremony for the national Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House in Washington, Nov. 21, 2022. Secret Service records show that the president's dog Commander has bitten its officers stationed at the White House 10 times between October 2022 and January. At least one biting incident required a trip to the hospital for the injured officer. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Biden’s dog Commander has bitten Secret Service officers 10 times in four months, records show

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., accompanied by House Republicans, speaks during a news conference on their investigation into the Biden family on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

House GOP investigators seek briefing on ‘shameful’ cocaine incident at White House

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testifies as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Secret Service reportedly denies Cassidy Hutchinson’s Jan. 6 tale

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Then-Vice President-elect, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, stands with his son Hunter during a re-enactment of the Senate oath ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Grassley, Johnson demand Secret Service answer questions about Hunter Biden gun incident

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - John Mulaney arrives at night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sept. 14, 2019, in Los Angeles. A file obtained by The Associated Press shows the U.S. Secret Service investigated John Mulaney, but found no wrongdoing in a joke the comedian made on “Saturday Night Live” in February 2020. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

File details investigation into John Mulaney ‘SNL’ monologue

By JAMES LAPORTA - Associated Press

John Mulaney arrives at night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

John Mulaney, stand-up comic, says Secret Service questioned him over assassination joke

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks outside of the Dirksen building of Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Secret Service interviewed Alex Jones after Infowars publisher claimed of plot to kill Donald Trump

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Secret Service agents stand on the South Lawn as Marine One with President Donald Trump aboard departs the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, to travel to Oxon Hill, Md. to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Secret Service investigating crash on Interstate 66 in Arlington, Virginia

By Jay LeBlanc - The Washington Times

Former President George H.W. Bush, seated, arrives at the River Oaks Country Club just before the quarterfinal match between Jeremy Chardy of France and Kevin Anderson from South Africa was suspended by rain at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship Friday, April 10, 2015, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Secret Service left Bush 41 vulnerable; house alarm broken for 13 months

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times