(New York Post) The House Oversight Committee held embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s feet to the fire Monday, with some members not holding back in expressing their disdain for her oversight of the agency after former President Trump was nearly killed in a deadly assassination attempt at a rally earlier this month.
“You are full of s–t!” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) shouted after Cheatle sidestepped questions about whether the Secret Service had addressed the committee’s demand for the names of all law enforcement personnel who worked the Butler Farm Show grounds on July 13, as well as any audio or video recordings of the event in the agency’s possession.
“Have you provided a list to the Oversight Committee, yes or no?” the rep asked bluntly.
“I would have to get back to you–” Cheatle started before Mace cut her off mid-sentence.
“That is a no. You’re full of s–t today. You’re just being completely dishonest,” the congresswoman spat.
“These are important questions that the American people want answers to. And you’re just dodging and talking around in generalities,” she continued. “This isn’t hard. These are not hard questions.”
Cheatle did little to curry favor with the bipartisan panel, peppering her remarks and answers with evasive language that repeatedly drew members’ ire.
Though she admitted that the near-assassination of Trump was the agency’s “most significant operational failure in decades,” she still graded agents an “A” for that day and reiterated her defiance of growing calls to resign.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) began by asking about the 1981 assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan, and what action the then-head of the Secret Service did in the aftermath.
“Do you know what Stewart Knight did? He was in charge at the time, of the Secret Service.”
