Kimberly Cheatle, 27th Director of Secret Service (Image obtained via Google search)

• September 17, 2022 - July 23, 2024

***IMPORTANT UPDATES***

On December 11, 2024, Congressman Clay Higgins released a 26 page Addendum to the J13 Task Force Report of Findings, highlighting his differing viewpoints regarding the Task Force's investigative conclusions.  See below link for details:

Source: ClayHiggins.House.gov

Congressman Higgins Addendum to J13 Task Force Final Report of Findings

On December 5, 2024, the Congressional House of Representatives Task Force on J13 Trump Assassination Attempt released its findings. See below link for details:

Source: Congressional House of Representatives 

House Task Force J13 Final Report Findings

On July 23, 2024, Director Cheatle announced her resignation, just one day after being excoriated by a bipartisan Congressional Committee that unanimously called for her immediate removal from leadership.

It is unclear if her resignation is a maneuver to avoid possible perjury charges, threatened by the Congressional Committee, or a desperate attempt to safeguard hers and another's privacy regarding her admitted use of an encryption application (SIGNAL) during personal cellular phone communications (which a Committee member asked if she used while communicating with anyone from the White House or agency personnel). 

During the contentious hearing, Director Cheatle was not very cooperative and at one point when pressed to provide a timeline of events she replied that she would "provide a timeline without specifics."  Despite Director Cheatle's adamant reiteration that she had no intention of resigning, her steadfastness seemed to weaken soon after she was further asked if she would agree to turn over to the Congressional Committee her personal cellular phone for analysis (There has been some speculation that a whistle blower informed the Committee about Director Cheatle's alleged inappropriate relationships with a White House staffer and various agency executive staff members, which may be corroborated by incriminating text messages rumored to exist).

Director Cheatle's departure does not absolve the Secret Service from the necessity to continue the investigation into holding those individuals accountable regarding the catastrophic failures in security that resulted in serious injuries, loss of a life, and the narrowly escaped assassination of a former President of the United States.  The assassination attempt on Former President Trump on July 13, 2024 is symptomatic of a deeper rooted problem of cultural dysfunction within the once elite Secret Service.  

The current Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, stands accused by several Agency sources of misusing her position to perpetuate prohibited personnel practices in recruitment, selection, assignment, promotion, and disciplinary action based on demographics rather than merit. Specifically, Director Cheatle has been actively promoting the "30x30 pledge” which aims to employ a female workforce percentage of at least 30 percent by the year 2030. Director Cheatle was reportedly quoted stating that she would accomplish this initiative "by all means necessary”. Although Director Cheatle’s goal may have good intentions, unfortunately her misguided agenda has employed methods that have apparently resulted in female candidates not being properly vetted.

Kim Cheatle, new head of the Secret Service, gives exclusive interview

Source: Youtube
 https://youtu.be/yA7Z9JzJomo?feature=shared

The double standard between males and females at the Secret Service is not only unfair but is also dangerous. This disparity has led to a number of serious breaches in security, which the Secret Service has managed to sweep under the rug from garnering media attention... Unlike the most recent incident on April 22nd of this year, regarding a female Special Agent assigned to the Vice Presidential Detail reported by multiple news media outlets (i.e. Washington Examiner; New York Post; Fox News, etc.) as having had a mental breakdown that involved bizarre and erratic behavior which quickly escalated into a physical brawl with several fellow detail agents who intervened and had to wrestle her to the ground and restrain her with handcuffs after she violently attacked her supervisor (a former Counter Assault Team Operator), beating him up in full public view at Joint Base Andrews (JBA) Airport, approximately just 90 minutes prior to the arrival of the Vice President. 

SECRET SERVICE AGENT DETAINED AFTER MENTAL BREAKDOWN…

Source: Instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6PTDB6uBrf/?igsh=MTJ3bml5djd3MHg4aw==

Multiple sources have corroborated that this agent has repeatedly demonstrated a history of poor judgement. Despite a plethora of outcries by Agency decision makers to disqualify this agent, due to performance and behavioral issues, she was not held to the same rigorous standards expected of all Secret Service Agent candidates during her recruitment, training, and eventual assignment to the VP Detail as a result of the 30x30 pledge. Most shocking is a report that this agent failed the situational judgement course, known as "Hogan's Alley", where agents are placed in a series of simulated ambush exercises and then evaluated on their ability to correctly discern between the "bad guys vs innocent civilians" in their decisions to shoot or not shoot pop up targets during various training scenarios. At the time, the Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) of the Rowley Training Center was Kimberly Cheatle, before becoming Director of Secret Service. Director Cheatle reportedly decided to not heed the warnings by the tactical range instructors and instead authorized this agent's graduation from training in support of filling the quota to support the 30x30 pledge.

At a time when the Secret Service is dealing with manpower shortages due to a attrition, there have also been a number of recent Secret Service incidents indicative of inadequate training, no doubt correlated to the fact that the Agency is struggling with an insufficient training budget to incorporate much needed for mock up sets for realistic simulated exercises (i.e. White House, Fence Line, etc). Agency sources attribute the issue to budgeted training funds allegedly being reallocated for recruitment, promotional testing, and executive leadership bonuses. As a result, this elite Agency finds itself using open fields and bike racks and relies on the creative minds of its law enforcement officers and agents to "imagine" the facilities they are tasked with safeguarding during training scenarios. Agency sources further corroborate the continued instances of fraud, waste, and abuse regarding the Secret Service's selective promotion practices under Director Cheatle's leadership are also being swept under the rug. The current promotion practice is arguably not in keeping with the Merit Promotion Process (MPP), in which millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent perpetuating the Agency's false narrative that promotions are based on a "merit based system", when in reality the promotions have been based on alleged "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)". This has been most recently demonstrated earlier this year by the fast track promotion of a female agent (with only 7 years of employment - too junior to qualify as a WHIP or Lead) who hadn't completed the standard phase 2 protection time required for promotion. This agent also benefited from the 30x30 pledge and is now a supervisor over more senior agents at the New York Field Office.

The Secret Service used to be an elite agency, known for its rigorous standards and impeccable record in keeping with its proud motto "Worthy of Trust and Confidence", which is emblazoned on the credentials of every Secret Service Agent. However, many are concerned that under Director Cheatle's leadership, the Secret Service has become increasingly vulnerable to potential insider threats that pose a risk to US National Security. This was most recently corroborated by the recent close of a two year Internal Affairs Inspection of a post detail female agent now assigned to the Washington Field Office. This agent also had a history of performance issues, and in response to her poor performance evaluation by her immediate supervisor she then made allegations of harassment against her supervisor chain-of-command that were quickly determined by Inspectors to be without any merit and the supervisors were subsequently cleared of the allegations. However, during this same investigation, this agent openly admitted to Inspectors that she secretly audio taped supervisors at work, as well as during protection assignments. And instead of investigating this agent's potential risk of being an insider threat (to verify if in fact she also secretly audio taped Presidents Obama and Trump during her protection assignments, as is rumored), Agency executive leadership reportedly turned a blind eye to this agent's blatant misconduct and tried to sweep the matter under the rug by engaging in a cover up to shield her from a thorough investigation and tried to maintain plausible deniability regarding her wrongdoing. Executive Leadership resisted taking appropriate investigative or disciplinary action, until one of her supervisors filed a whistle blower complaint which eventually resulted in disciplinary action being taken against her.

While male agents have had their security clearances immediately revoked and their employment terminated for far less infractions, Director Cheatle reportedly ignored the Inspection's briefing regarding the aforementioned whistle blower complaint and authorized this female agent to continue working with her TS security clearance fully intact following only a letter of reprimand and brief suspension because of the double standard in disciplinary actions concerning males vs females, no doubt attributable to the 30x30 pledge.

Reportedly, DHS-OIG has been monitoring many of these breaches in security but surprisingly has chosen not to take any corrective action and instead leaving it to Secret Service to police its own. Unfortunately, the Secret Service has a repeated record of failure in this regard and spends more time covering up the symptomatic incidents instead of fixing the underlying root problems.

In closing, a leader should be judged by their actions and results, not by their words or intentions. Therefore, this petition calls for an immediate investigation by the Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committee to review the Secret Service's fiscal responsibility regarding its approved budget and uses of taxpayer dollars for recruitment, training, promotion selections and bonuses to executive leadership. Only then can the underlying root problems be fixed by holding Director Cheatle accountable, and demanding her resignation or removal if found guilty.

Your signature can help restore integrity and merit-based practices within the Secret Service which is a critical agency responsible for the safeguarding of our nation's security and protecting the lives of our leaders and their families.

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