Outgoing Secret Service Director Alles says he was not fired from his job, adding that he was told weeks ago that 'transitions in leadership should be expected across the Department of Homeland Security.' More:
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is removing the director of the U.S. Secret Service, the agency that provides protection for him and other top U.S. officials, the White House said on Monday, a day after the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said James Murray, a career Secret Service agent, would take over the Secret Service in May. Alles had run the agency for two years and served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 35 years before retiring as a major general in 2011. Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, called for Alles to testify before Congress “as soon as possible about the potential security vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago ... and other counterintelligence and national security threats.”“We are dealing with a humanitarian and security crisis at the border because Congress failed to act,” said Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
The first sign of Trump’s overhaul of Homeland Security came late on Thursday, when he abruptly pulled his nomination of Ron Vitiello as director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of DHS.The Republican president, seeking re-election in 2020, has taken a hard line on immigration since taking office in January 2017, and he has said he will make border security a central theme in next year’s race.
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