In order to address concerns about recruiting and training related to an agent on Vice President Kamala Harris’s protection detail who assaulted her supervisor, Secret Service representatives will brief Congress on both sides of the issue.
In response to a letter from House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky, the briefing will take place on June 21.
“In response to the letter received from Chairman James Comer, the U.S. Secret Service will comply with the House Oversight Committee’s request for a briefing on the topics outlined in the publicly available letter dated May 30, 2024,” a Secret Service spokesperson stated.
Comer wrote to President Biden’s appointee, U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.
“It was recently reported that a Secret Service agent, tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris, physically attacked her superior (and the commanding agent in charge) and other agents trying to subdue her while on duty at Joint Base Andrews and assigned to the Vice President’s protective detail,” Comer stated to Cheatle in a letter.
The altercation took place at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on April 22 at around nine in the morning, as reported by the Secret Service in various media stories.
The agent has been taken out of the vice president’s detail and was eventually led away in handcuffs. According to the Secret Service, the event is a “medical matter.”
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According to a petition that Secret Service employees circulated within the organization asking for a congressional investigation, there may have been other incidences, a Bloomberg reporter reported.
The agents claimed that there were issues with insufficient training and a discriminatory disciplinary policy.
“This incident raised concerns within the agency about the hiring and screening process for this agent: specifically, whether previous incidents in her work history were overlooked during the hiring process as years of staff shortages had led the agency to lower once stricter standards as part of a diversity, equity and inclusion effort,” Comer’s continued in letter to Cheatle.Â
The Secret Service briefing will take place a few days after Comer requested that Cheatle provide a briefing for committee personnel by June 13 at the latest.
The president, vice president, and their spouses and kids are all protected by the Secret Service.
The president and vice president are flown by Air Force One and Air Force Two to Joint Base Andrews. When the altercation occurred, Harris was still at the vice president’s house at the Naval Observatory, and it did not cause her to delay her journey.
