Credit where it is due. This is the most bipartisan hearing I’ve ever watched.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tore into Secret Service Kimberly Cheatle over the failures that led to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump:
“I can tell you on our mission assurance, internal investigation, we are targeting to have that completed, within 60 days,” she said. “There’s also an external investigation that is going to be taking place. There are a number of Office of Inspector General investigations as well.” Cheatle’s answer didn’t sit well with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who said “the notion of a report coming out in 60 days, when the threat environment is so high in the United States, irrespective of party, is not acceptable.” “This is not theater. This is not about jockeying. This is about the safety of some of the most highly targeted and valued targets internationally and domestically in the United States of America,” Ocasio-Cortez added. “So the idea that a report will be finalized in 60 days, let alone prior to any actionable decisions that would be made, is simply not acceptable.” “There need to be answers. Again… this is not a moment of theater. We have to make policy decisions and we have to make them now. We do. And that may require legislation, that may require policy that we must pass in the immediate term. And without that, we are flying blind. So the lack of answers and the lack of report is just simply not something that we can accept here,” Ocasio-Cortez also said. Cheatle said earlier in the hearing that she is “not waiting for these investigations to be completed prior to making changes.”
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