Oversight Committee says Homeland Security is refusing to confirm a Secret Service briefing time

Just the News ^ | July 16, 2024 4:17pm | Steven Richards

[E. Pluribus Unum]

House Republican members on the Oversight Committee said Tuesday the Department of Homeland Security has taken over communications between the committee and the U.S. Secret Service and refuses to confirm a time for a briefing that was supposed to take place today. 

The interposition by the Department of Homeland Security comes as Congress is seeking answers from the Secret Service about the security failure at Donald Trump's July 13 rally in Pennsylvania where an attempt was made on the former president's life. The USSS had previously agreed to brief the committee Tuesday. 

"After the Secret Service agreed to brief members of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security took over communications with the Committee and has since refused to confirm a briefing time. The Oversight Committee has a long record of bipartisan oversight of the Secret Service and the unprofessionalism we are witnessing from current DHS leadership is unacceptable," a spokeswoman for the Oversight Committee said in a statement shared with Just the News Tuesday.

"While the Secret Service confirmed Director Cheatle is expected to appear for the Committee’s hearing on July 22, to head off any attempt by DHS to backtrack on her appearance, the Chairman will issue a subpoena for her to attend. Director Cheatle must answer to Congress and the American people about the historic failure that occurred on her watch," she added. 

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[Robert357]

The House has the power of the budget. Propose moving the headquarters of the Secret Service to a small city in Alaska, Utah, or Wyoming and see what happens. Don’t change staffing levels or salaries, just make the political hacks not be able to live in the swamp with the rest of the deep state.

[Does so]

“It is a coverup.”
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If there ever was one!

Myorkas should go, too...

[Irish Eyes]

Saving to read later

[timestax]

Hopefully that hearing won’t be the usual bunch of speeches and posturing, but rather, some hard and pointed questions to Cheatle. I expect her answers to many of the questions will be the same ol’ “As this is an ongoing investigation, I can not comment at this time”

Plenty of obfuscating will be going on. To muddy up the waters and confuse everybody. Don't let her start it. NO MORE LIES !!!!!

[timestax]

bttt

[mewzilla]

The POTATUS didn’t hire Kimberly Cheetos.

The people who installed him hired Kimberly Cheetos.

[MayflowerMadam]

Fine. Cut off all funding to DHS immediately. ALL funding. Congress can do THAT. What’s the point of having “the power of the purse” if you don’t use it?

[Stravinsky]

Republicans need to make the point from now to eternity that this was indistinguishable from a successful assassination attempt. If Trump’s head hadn’t moved, he’d be dead. The security service and the local police need to be treated with the same level of scrutiny and outrage as if it had been.