The Crisis Within the Secret Service
It has been six weeks since the attempt on former President Donald Trump\u2019s life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the American public\u2019s questions about the nature of the attack and the security failings that led to Trump\u2019s brush with death largely go unanswered.\nJason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor and former Utah Congressman who once chaired the House Oversight Committee, joined The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the apparent security failures and ongoing investigations into what transpired in Butler on July 13.\n\u201cI thought the extraction was very slow. I thought it was fairly pathetic,\u201d Chaffetz\xa0told The Daily Signal. \u201cIt\u2019s been illuminated more now that even though he was the Republican nominee, even though he was the former president, he wasn\u2019t getting the full protective detail that a sitting president would get. And I have a problem with that.\u201d\nChaffetz believes the failures are structural. Poor recruitment and training, as well as heavy workloads create a perfect storm for the kinds of security lapses witnessed on July 13 in Butler, Chaffetz suggested. These problems have long plagued the Secret Service. When Chaffetz chaired the House Oversight Committee, he conducted the largest investigation into the Secret Service\u2019s operations in American history. The investigation resulted in a more than 400 page report titled,\xa0\u201cUnited States Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.\u201d\nThe former Utah Congressman remains \u201cskeptical\u201d that the current investigations in Congress will yield the policy changes necessary to improve the Secret Service without Congress using the power of the purse to \u201chold them accountable.\u201d\nEnjoy the show!