(22 Jul 2024)
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Washington DC – 22 July 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Kimberly Cheatle, U.S. Secret Service Director:
"The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed. As the director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency. We are fully cooperating with ongoing investigations. We must learn what happened, and I will move heaven and earth to ensure that an incident like July 13th does not happen again."
++SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kimberly Cheatle, U.S. Secret Service Director:
"Let me state unequivocally, nothing I have said should be interpreted to place blame for this failure on our federal, state, or local law enforcement partners who supported the Secret Service in Butler. We could not do our job without them. We rely on the relationships built over years of working together to secure events and conduct investigations. Our agents, officers and support personnel understand that every day we are expected to sacrifice our lives to execute a no fail mission."
++SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kimberly Cheatle, U.S. Secret Service Director:
"It is now more important than ever for the men and women of the Secret Service to remain resilient and to focus on what is necessary to carry out our critical mission. Our agency needs to be adequately resourced in order to serve our current mission requirements and anticipate future requirements."
++SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kimberly Cheatle, U.S. Secret Service Director:
"Our mission is not political. It is literally a matter of life and death. And the tragic events on July 13th remind us of that. I have full confidence in the men and women of the Secret Service. They are worthy of our support and executing our protective mission."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is appearing before a House Committee Monday to answer questions on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
"The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed," said Cheatle.
"As a director of the United States Secret Service. I take full responsibility for any security lapse of our agency. We are fully cooperating with ongoing investigations. We must learn what happened, and I will move heaven and earth to ensure that an incident like July 13th does not happen again."
This comes as the same time Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed a bipartisan, independent panel to review this month’s assassination attempt on Trump.
The panel members will have “extensive law enforcement and security experience to conduct a 45-day independent review of the planning for and actions taken by the U.S. Secret Service and state and local authorities before, during, and after the rally, and the U.S. Secret Service governing policies and procedures,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
The panel will have 45 days to review the policies and procedures of the Secret Service before, during and after the rally on July 13 where a gunman fired at Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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