Butler exposed the Secret Service’s weaknesses, but new threats test whether lessons have been learned

The attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, exposed vulnerabilities inside an agency long ...

‘Stretched thin’: Secret Service faces renewed scrutiny after White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack

President Donald Trump, the acting attorney general and other top administration officials all publicly say the Secret Service responded as intended when a gunman tried to force his way into the White ...
Washington Examiner

Secret Service faces security test with large-scale Charlie Kirk funeral service

“This is going to push the Secret Service to its limit. It’s all hands on deck — but there’s multiple decks,” Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent, told CNN. It is not yet clear whether the ...
CNN

A year after Butler: How a near assassination led to an uneven search for accountability in the Secret Service

One year after the near assassination of Donald Trump, a deep frustration has set in at the Secret Service over the agency’s response to the security failures of that day. In interviews with CNN, a ...
PBS

Questions remain at Secret Service one year after Trump rally shooting

WASHINGTON (AP) — In many ways, the assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign stop was a perfect storm of failings coming together that allowed 20-year-old Michael Thomas ...
RealClearPolitics

One Year after Butler, Secret Service, FBI Face New Questions

Still reveling in his political comeback after surviving two near-miss assassination attempts, last December, then-President-elect Trump stopped by the Christmas party of the Secret Service detail ...