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There’s a lot to unpack here. Kimberley Cheatle, who was ‘handpicked by Jill Biden’ to lead the Secret Service, isn’t getting her security clearance renewed.

As you’ll remember, she resigned (which allowed her to keep her pension) after the Butler assassination attempt.

The decision by the Secret Service, first reported by RealClearPolitics came after a wave of fierce opposition from Republican lawmakers, including Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), who led a sweeping investigation into the agency’s catastrophic failures at Trump’s July 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

‘Following the security debacle in Butler, the former director of USSS made the right decision to resign,’ Johnson said. ‘I see no reason for her security clearance to be reinstated.’

Cheatle, handpicked by then–First Lady Jill Biden in 2022, had previously led the agency through what congressional investigators later described as one of the most glaring security breakdowns in presidential protection in modern history.

Additionally, the fact that she kissed Jill Biden’s ass enough to get appointed to the position speaks volumes. The first implication is that Jill Biden was acting in a presidential capacity by ‘appointing her to the job’. The second was that she wasn’t qualified anyway.

My opinion is that once you leave a job, you lose your clearance anyway. Yes, I understand the reasons why that’s not done, but the practice of renewing them has led to a lot more corruption than it has benefited the country.

National security attorney Sean Bigley said the revocations reflect a reform that is long-overdue.

‘You have all of these former government bureaucrats, who are continuing to have access to the highest level of classified information… and then they can go and take that continued insider access and make themselves a hot commodity in the private sector or on the cable news circuit,’ Bigley told RCP.

All of this is long overdue.