Not A Moment Too Soon-Though She Should Have Been Fired

[Kathianne]

Cheatle resigns.

[Gunny]

Cheatle resigns.

Why do you think she should have been fired?

[Kathianne]

Why do you think she should have been fired?
She did not answer any questions yesterday, basically she is either the most ignorant person ever or she holds anyone calling for her accountability in contempt.

[Kathianne]

She did not answer any questions yesterday, basically she is either the most ignorant person ever or she holds anyone calling for her accountability in contempt.
Oh, BTW, Trump was shot under her watch; another killed, and two seriously injured.

[Gunny]

She did not answer any questions yesterday, basically she is either the most ignorant person ever or she holds anyone calling for her accountability in contempt.

I didn't watch anything about it. I have no issue with her being fired. I just don't want to see the issue considered closed after hanging the nearest scapegoat. The buck doesn't stop at her desk.

[Kathianne]

I didn't watch anything about it. I have no issue with her being fired. I just don't want to see the issue considered closed after hanging the nearest scapegoat. The buck doesn't stop at her desk.

I don't think that's going to happen. Those congress critters were very angry, they expect to be taken seriously-no matter what jackasses they may be. Even today they are making very clear, resignation or not she will be subpoenaed.

[Kathianne]

and there's this:

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/07/23/breaking-cheatle-resigns-after-capitol-hill-humiliation-n3792171


BREAKING: Cheatle Resigns After Capitol Hill HumiliationED MORRISSEY 11:00 AM | July 23, 2024



AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.
Alternative headline: Secret Service Director First Biden Official to Get Booted for Obvious Failure. In an administration marked by a disgraceful retreat from Kabul that left 13 service members dead and 14,000 Americans left behind to the Taliban, a border crisis that still rages, a bungled response to supply-chain crises and a derailment in East Palestine, Kimberly Cheatle becomes the first to suffer consequences for embarrassing incompetence:


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.


The resignation is a rapid fall for the agency veteran who protected Dick Cheney and Joseph R. Biden Jr. in their vice-presidential tenures and was publicly supported by Biden administration officials after a gunman shot at Mr. Trump at a rally on July 13. The glaring security mistakes before the shooting, however, and the heated criticism that Ms. Cheatle faced in the days since had left her position increasingly in doubt.


"The buck stops with me," Cheatle told ABC News two days after the assassination attempt nearly cost Donald Trump his life. And in the same breath, Cheatle then insisted that she didn't need to pay any consequences for the failure. Cheatle continued to insist that she would remain on the job for another week, until running into a bipartisan beat-down yesterday on Capitol Hill.


Her fate was likely sealed in this humiliating exchange with House Democrat Ro Khanna:




There's not any coming back from that. By the end of the hearing, everyone began demanding her resignation, especially because Cheatle stonewalled the congressional committee throughout her testimony. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez couldn't believe that Cheatle wanted another 60 days to provide answers on the ability of the Secret Service to protect its assigned notables, for instance. By the time Cheatle finished her testimony, she had no political cover whatsoever.


So did she jump, or did she get pushed? Her boss certainly changed his tune today:




Mayorkas should have to answer for this too. He's already been impeached over the border crisis and his failures to protect the national security of the United States. DHS is looking like an asylum for incompetents on Mayorkas' watch, not a necessary bulwark against threats to the US collectively or individually. His initial impulse to support Cheatle despite the worst body-protection failure of the agency since 1981 also needs immediate attention from Congress.


But at least one person has been held accountable. Now, the only question is who demanded that accountability? Joe Biden? Kamala Harris? Barack Obama?

[Gunny]

and there's this:

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/07/23/breaking-cheatle-resigns-after-capitol-hill-humiliation-n3792171Mayorkas is a failure of the first order. This is just another loser moment in his loser career. They definitely should have gone after him as well.

[revelarts]

Not Unusual for people NOT to be fired from positions like those.
After 911 most people kept their seats. Several other incidents like this as well.
After 911 some were even promoted.

Got a feeling there's going to be lot more info in public unofficial reports, than we'll ever see in any official reports.

[fj1200]

Cheatle resigns.

Lloyd Austin should have been fired too but...

[Kathianne]

Lloyd Austin should have been fired too but...
and Myorkas, though pure Biden directions.

[SassyLady]

and Myorkas, though pure Biden directions.

And Garland.