U.S. Secret Service has reportedly fired two agents over their handling of a security breach that occurred at the White House last month.
Both of the officers who were let go belonged to the Uniformed Division and had been with the agency for less than a year. They had been tasked with guarding the Treasury Building and an entrance to the White House complex.
On March 10, a man who entered the White House compound by hopping a fence near the Treasury Department made it all the way to a main door of the president’s residence before being apprehended by security guards.
Sources told CNN on Thursday that the 26-year-old intruder was able to jump the fence, an eight-foot gate and another fence before finally being tracked down by Secret Service agents. President Trump was inside the executive mansion at the time.
Trump praised the agency a day after the incident occurred, telling reporters that officers “did a fantastic job” and the intruder was “a troubled person.”
In the aftermath of the incident, speculation abounded that Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly might soon appoint a director with military background to head the scandal-ridden agency.
