Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s appearance before the House Oversight Committee on Monday to answer questions about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was a disaster. The 27-year veteran of the agency was obstructive and defensive bordering on contemptuous in answers to questions from members of both parties. She frequently refused or failed to answer many of them.
Cheatle’s testimony came after she made an appearance on the floor of the Republican National Convention last week, where she was cornered by four Republican senators, including Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. The senators fired angry questions at her demanding how the Secret Service, the agency she heads, had failed to protect the Republican candidate for president just days before. She did not answer their questions and stood there like a robot whose motherboard had shorted out.
