Cheatle's Resignation: Congress Just Getting Warmed Up

Barely minutes elapsed between the breaking news that Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle had resigned in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and a leading lawmaker promising that her departure would have no impact on investigating the incident.

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“There will be more accountability to come,” House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, vowed in a statement. “While Director Cheatle’s resignation is a step toward accountability, we need a full review of how these security failures happened so that we can prevent them going forward.”

Ed Morrissey

Olivier provides a good status update here.

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