U.S. Secret Service director agrees to testify to House lawmakers after Trump assassination attempt

CBS ^ | 7/17/24 | Nicole Sgange

[hardspunned]

Washington — U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has agreed to testify to the House Oversight Committee as Republicans ramp up efforts to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

The committee's Republican chairman, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, subpoenaed Cheatle on Wednesday for her testimony, requesting her appearance before lawmakers on July 22.

In a letter to Comer on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security offered Cheatle's testimony on July 25, July 26 or the following week. The July 22 date clashed with her "travel and operational commitments." But a committee spokesperson said the hearing would take place as scheduled on July 22, adding that "Americans demand and deserve answers" from Cheatle about the assassination attempt and the Secret Service's "egregious failures."

[hardspunned]

I still wouldn’t bet on her not blowing off the Congressional subpoena.

[HerrBlucher]

I wouldn’t know about that, she risks getting a strongly worded letter if she doesn’t show up.

[NWFree]

Like we’re going to get any truth out of that fat ugly wart faced liar

[thegagline]

Remember, it was not incompetence. It was complicity.

[fhayek]

Agrees?! Isn't it her obligation?

[DesertRhino]

She will go there, and speak in generalities, “the brave men and women”, “willing to take a bullet”, “Iranians Iranians Iranians”, and then the big one you will hear a dozen times, “cannot comment on an ongoing investigation”.

[hardspunned]

There’s is no point for her to show up. “I’d love to answer all of your questions but there’s an ongoing investigation congressman. Therefore, I’m not answering a damned thing”.

[kempster]

She will continue to say she can’t comment on an ongoing investigation!

[Thapsus_epiphany]

Sergeant Schultz

[Indy Pendance]

She got chased away from the RNC last night by a couple of senators and others. They can’t play their game anymore, the entire country is on to them.

[Indy Pendance]

That’s a given.

[moovova]

"I have no recollection of that."

[TChad]

She not simply incompetent, she is an accessory to attempted murder.

[Linda Tripp]

Her first opening is a month away.

[Linda Tripp]

Secret Service Code Name WARTHOG

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Nothing will happen to her. She needs to go back to guarding bags of Cheetos.

[Psalm 73]

Did you see the clip of Lankford and Blackburn cornering her at the RNC the other night?

She looked a bit uncomfortable.

[jeffc]

Yep. She’s going there to push the narrative the Dems have settled on.

[Candor7]

She will plead the 5th. Espionage carries the death penalty.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

I still wouldn’t bet on her not blowing off the Congressional subpoena.

I expect that quite a few Dems are going to start worrying about the next Attorney General. There is now a precedent of imprisoning people for contempt of Congress.