The director of the Secret Service, Kimberly A. Cheatle, resigned on Tuesday, after security failures surrounding the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump and calls for her to step down from prominent Republican lawmakers.
In an email to Secret Service employees on Tuesday, Ms.
Cheatle said that one of the agency’s foremost duties is to protect the nation’s leaders and that it “fell short of that mission” in failing to secure a campaign rally from a gunman on July 13.
“I do not want my calls for resignation to be a distraction from the great work each and every one of you do towards our vital mission,” Ms.
Cheatle said in the email, which was reviewed by The New York Times.
She said she was deeply committed to the agency but added that “in light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your director.”
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