US Secret Service boss resigns over Trump shooting failures

The head of the National Security Agency in the United States, Kim Cheatle, has resigned from his position in the agency after the assassination of US President Donald Trump.
Ms Cheatle testified for almost six hours at a  House of Commons committee hearing on Monday.
lawmakers were outraged when they refused to comment on the shooting at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania earlier this month.
"As its director, I take full responsibility for the security failure," he said in his resignation letter on Tuesday.
Both Democrats and Republicans  called for his resignation.
In a letter to staff, Ms Cheatle said she was "putting the needs of the company first" and made her decision "with a heavy heart".
"Findings over the past week have been strong and will continue to be as our business hours increase," he said.
"I do not want my  resignation to distract from the great work  you are doing for our important mission." President Joe Biden
said in a statement that he is grateful for  decades of public service.
"Self-evaluation at the end of the event of July 13 continues and I hope to evaluate the conclusion. "We all know what happened that day can't go back," he  said among the  audience  and two other people were injured. A bullet hit the former president's ear.
"The Biden/Harris administration has not treated me well, I was forced to face democracy," Trump tweeted following news of his resignation. At the House Committee meeting on Monday,
lawmakers asked Ms. Cheatle on security preparations ahead of Trump's campaign.
Ms Cheatle accepted responsibility for the security breach but declined calls to resign.
He called the shooting "the biggest operational failure of the Secret Service in decades."
witnesses reported seeing the suspect - suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks - with a gun on display moments before the shooting.
Crooks was killed by a gunman moments later.
Ms. Cheatle did not provide new information to lawmakers about how Crooks was able to get to the roof where he was or why Trump was allowed to take office.
After the hearing, the  Republican and Democratic leaders of the committee, James Comer and Jamie Raskin, sent a letter to Ms. Cheatle expressing their belief that she should resign.
Mr Comer said Ms Cheatle was not "confident" at the time of the hearing that she would be able to carry out the secret service.
"The Oversight Committee hearing resulted in the resignation of Director Cheatle and accountability will be forthcoming," said X, a former Twitter member. House Speaker Mike Johnson,
Republicans, called his resignation "long overdue" and said he was glad he did the right thing.
"Now we have to pick up the pieces, we have to rebuild the faith of the American people and their trust in the Secret Service," he told reporters  Tuesday.