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…
