The secret services do not renew the security authorization of the former director Kim Cheatle

Former director of secret services Kimberly Cheatle will not renew her high -level security authorization, said the agency.

This occurs after Cheatle resigned last year in the midst of a meticulous examination of the security tricks that led to the attempted assassination against Donald Trump at the time during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Trump survived an assassination attempt in July 13, 2024, underwent an injury to his ear after a bullet collapsed, while the member of the public Corey Comperatore was killed and two other people in the crowd were injured. An elite of the secret service killed the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, who had climbed to the top of a neighboring building.

The secret services, as well as several best American intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the FBI, regularly update security authorizations for former administrators. But the secret services now indicate that not all former administrators will see their authorizations renewed by the current director Sean Curran.

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The Director of Services at the time, Kimberly Cheatle, testifies before the Chamber’s supervisory and responsibility committee about Donald Trump’s assassination attempt in Washington, DC, July 22, 2024. (AP photo / Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

“American secret services are sponsoring security authorizations for all former administrators for their knowledge of operational and national security issues,” a spokesperson for the secret service in Fox News said. “The goal was that the agency could maintain formal and protected communication, including potentially sensitive and classified questions with former civil servants.”

“Since then appointed, the director Curran has built a dynamic team of competent advisers who will help implement his vision of the agency,” continued the spokesperson. “In addition, the Curran director has modernized the intelligence apparatus within the agency. During this process, he determined that all former administrators will not renew their authorizations.”

The decision not to renew Cheatle’s security authorization when some republican legislators expressed opposition to a potential renewal, notably Senator Ron Johnson, R-WISC., Who argued that his management decisions contributed to the many failures of the agency surrounding the attempted assassination against Trump.

“Following the security debacle in Butler, the former director of the USSS made the right decision to resign,” Johnson said in a press release Realclearpolitics. “I don’t see any reason for its security authorization to be restored.”

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The director of services then secret, Kimberly Cheatle, took an oath before testifying to the supervisory and responsibility committee of the Chamber on July 22, 2024, in Washington, DC (Kent Nishimura / Getty images)

Johnson, who presides over the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, had surveyed the failures of the secret services leading to the assassination attempt to Butler.

Senator Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Which sits on the Senate judicial committee which conducted a joint investigation with an internal security panel in the butler towers, said that the agency’s failures should prevent him from having a security authorization.

“Kim Cheatle won the secret services by not preventing a horrible attempt at President Trump’s life,” Blackburn said in a statement in Realclearpolitics. “Not only did she supervise one of the greatest security failures in the history of our nation, but she also overcome the surveillance of the congress and fled my colleagues and me when we confronted her.

Cheatle resigned from her post as director 10 days after the butler shooting because she faced intense pressure from the Republicans for security failures.

“For men and women of American secret services, the solemn mission of secret services is to protect the leaders and financial infrastructure of our country,” wrote Cheatle in a letter to the agency at the time. “On July 13, we failed this mission.”

Donald Trump was photographed under the coverage of secret service agents after being shot in his butler’s ear in Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

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“As director, I take full responsibility for the security forfeiture,” she added.

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the assassination attempt, Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., Who chairs the internal security committee, accused her of lying in her testimony to the congress following the shooting when she denied the accusations, she refused requests for more resources for Trump’s security.

The former director rejected Paul’s allegations.

“Any assertion or involvement that I have provided deceptive testimonies is manifestly false and do not serve these men and women on the front line who were unjustly disciplined for a team rather than an individual failure,” she replied in a statement provided by her lawyer.