Secret Service chief to tell lawmakers agency has ‘fallen short’

The acting director of the Secret Service is expected to tell lawmakers Wednesday that his agency has “fallen short” amid recent security missteps, according to The Washington Post.

{mosads}In a prepared testimony submitted to the House Judiciary Committee late Tuesday, Joseph Clancy says he is conducting a “comprehensive, bottom-to-top assessment” of failures within the agency, calling the Sept. 19 incident where a fence jumper sprinted inside the White House “simply inexcusable.” 

“While agents and officers of the Secret Service conduct some of the best law enforcement work in the world, events in recent years suggest that while we strive for perfection, we have, on limited occasions, fallen short of that goal,” he is expected to say.

Clancy also concluded that a “lack of due diligence on the part of advance team members” allowed an armed private security contractor to share an elevator with the president during a Sept. 16 trip to Atlanta.