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Acting Secret Service director to testify before Senate committees

Published 07/24/2024, 07:31 PM
Updated 07/24/2024, 09:59 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is sworn in during a House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing on the security lapses that allowed an attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, on Capitol

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The acting director of the U.S. Secret Service will testify before three Senate committees on Tuesday in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the committees announced on Wednesday.

The deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will also testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is holding a hearing in partnership with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is sworn in during a House of Representatives Oversight Committee hearing on the security lapses that allowed an attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 22, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo

Kimberly Cheatle resigned as director of the U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday after bipartisan demands to quit over the failure to prevent the attempted assassination. Ronald L. Rowe, Jr. replaced her as acting director.

(This story has been corrected to fix the date in paragraph 1 and change the name of the committee in paragraph 2)

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