A task force looking into the assassination attempts against Donald Trump during his presidential campaign is recommending changes to the Secret Service.
A task force looking into the assassination attempts against Donald Trump during his presidential campaign is recommending changes to the Secret Service
Among the highlights of task force's report is a call for reforms to the United States Secret Service (USSS). Recommendations include scaling back protection for foreign leaders during peak election season and exploring the possibility of moving the agency out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The House panel's final report on the Secret Service comes after a shocking attempt on Donald Trump's life in July at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The bipartisan panel made dozens of recommendations, including urging the Secret Service to record all radio transmissions and scale back protection of foreign leaders to focus on U.S. officials.
In the second shooting, lawmakers noted that there were "critical vulnerabilities" in the security of the golf course, but said federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Bureau of Alcohol,
A task force looking into the assassination attempts against Donald Trump during his presidential campaign is recommending changes to the Secret Service.
A congressional task force investigating the attempts to kill Donald Trump during ... review because of the USSS’s stunning failure to protect President-elect Trump on July 13,” the report ...
The bipartisan House task force -- investigating two assassination attempts on President-elect Donald Trump -- released its final report Tuesday, calling the July 13 attack in Butler "preventable."
The report said the "litany of related security failures" that occurred during the July assassination attempt on Donald Trump is "unacceptable."
The bipartisan panel made dozens of recommendations, including urging the Secret Service to record all radio transmissions and scale back protection of foreign leaders to focus on U.S. officials.
The report's authors noted that the number of people the agency is tasked with protecting has “greatly expanded.” At the same time, the presidential campaign season is getting longer and more intense.