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 ...

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

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

Director [Sean] Curran has been modernizing the intelligence apparatus within the agency,” a spokesperson said, according to ...

OPINION Secret Service Chief Cheatle has resigned. This is how we fix the USSS before it's too late Accountability starts from the top. We must take a hard look at the failures that led to Trump ...

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: We are nine days out from this event, and I would like to know those answers as well, which is why we are going through these investigations to be able to determine that fully.

Cheatle’s resignation leaves the Secret Service without a top leader at a critical time – with the Democratic National Convention four weeks away, and the election season already well underway ...

But Cheatle also suggested the agency needs “to be adequately resourced” and grow its $3.1 billion budget for all protectees, adding that she was “striving toward” hiring at least 1,500 ...

Cheatle said the threat environment for protecting individuals “is always difficult, and that’s dynamic, and it’s always evolving,” sidestepping the line of questioning.

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.