Overview

• The Senate Homeland Security Committee’s final report found a cascade of preventable failures in the Secret Service’s planning and execution of Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally.
• It found that credible intelligence about a potential assassination plot reached the agency at least ten days before the event but was not conveyed to security personnel.
• At least ten requests for additional protective assets, including counter-snipers and counter-drone systems, were denied or left unfulfilled by agency leadership.
• Six agents received suspensions ranging from 10 to 42 days, but no personnel were fired and former Director Kimberly Cheatle has publicly disputed allegations of denied support.
• Current Director Sean Curran affirmed that substantive reforms have been implemented as Congress sustains intensified oversight to prevent future protectee-targeted attacks.