I think the clock has to be ticking down on Secret Service head Kim Cheatle’s time in her job.
The hearing on Monday, which took about five hours, was wild, with representatives on both sides of the aisle trying to get answers from her. Democrats, including Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ro Khanna, and even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked good questions. But Cheatle didn’t do anything to help herself. In fact, her recalcitrance to answer even the most basic questions that they asked her made everything worse. By the end, they were even angrier at her failure to provide information than at the beginning.
Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) declared that the Secret Service has a leadership problem, and she wasn’t buying Cheatle’s “hollow words.” The best way to keep your job is to answer the questions, McClain said. She noted that Cheatle wouldn’t even answer when she started preparing for the…
