The House made a bipartisan demand Friday that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson conduct a comprehensive review of the Secret Service and not just a probe of how they reacted to last month’s fence jumper.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and the panel’s top Democrat, Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said in the letter to Johnson that a September hearing on the agency exposed “a series of dangerous security breaches,” that point to serious flaws.
Issa and Cummings also called on Johnson to make public a currently classified internal report on the incident as well as recommendations for improving security flaws.
The Secret Service has come under extended and intense criticism over how it reacted to a man who scaled the White House fence, ran through an unlocked door and made it far into the mansion before being tackled by an off-duty agent.
More breaches were revealed in days following, including an incident reported by the Washington Examiner involving a man carrying a gun in an elevator ride with President Obama during his trip to Atlanta last month.
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson was forced to resign this week, but Issa and Cummings said to Johnson in the letter that her departure is not enough.
“Serious questions predated her tenure as Director, and her resignation by no means resolves them,” Issa and Cummings wrote to Johnson.
