Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who has faced controversy over the Butler, Pa., assassination attempt ...

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle will not have her security clearance renewed, after she resigned following ...

The Secret Service was moving forward with renewing former Director Kimberly Cheatle’s top-level security clearance but ...

Former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle — under fire over the Pennsylvania assassination attempt against US President ...

WASHINGTON − Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday, 10 days after a lone gunman’s near-assassination of former President Donald Trump shook confidence in her ability to ...

Cheatle said agents threw themselves on top of Trump in under three seconds after the shooting began. “Our personnel created a body bunker on top of the president, shielding him,” Cheatle said.

But, Cheatle insisted, the Secret Service would never have taken Trump onto the stage if they had known there was an "actual threat." She also praised the agents who surrounded the Republican ...

Cheatle, 53, served 28 years in the Secret Service and was part of its protective detail guarding then-Vice President Dick Cheney before she left to become head of global security at PepsiCo.

Cheatle then uttered a line that struck the members as nonsensical: “I have a timeline that doesn’t have specifics.” But many Democrats were equally enraged by Cheatle’s failure to answer ...

Were Cheatle to step down, it would not be an instant fix to an agency that has been plagued by security lapses and scandals for at least 15 years. Nor would it answer all of the questions that ...

Cheatle has nearly 30 years of experience working for the Secret Service, including as the special agent in charge of the Atlanta field office and as the assistant director of protective operations.

U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is sworn in before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign ...