After a long string of scandals that embarrassed the Secret Service, it’s being announced that Director Pierson has resigned:
“Today Julia Pierson, the Director of the United States Secret Service, offered her resignation, and I accepted it. I salute her 30 years of distinguished service to the Secret Service and the Nation,” Johnson said in a statement. “As an interim Acting Director of the Secret Service, I am appointing Joseph Clancy, formerly Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Service. Mr. Clancy retired from the Secret Service in 2011. I appreciate his willingness to leave his position in the private sector on very short notice and return to public service for a period.”
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This is after it appears that she was caught lying in Congressional testimony about notifying the president after a felon with a gun was accidentally allowed to ride an elevator with him a few weeks ago.
From the hearing: