. . UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : SECURITY: Secret Service Director Resigns in Scandal Over Security Lapses . . Secret Service Director Resigns in Scandal Over Security Lapses By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MICHAEL D. SHEAR OCTOBER 1, 2014 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/us/julia-pierson-secret-service.html . .WASHINGTON Julia Pierson, the director of the Secret Service, is resigning in the wake of several security breaches.
.Ms. Pierson offered her resignation on Wednesday during a meeting with Jeh C. Johnson, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that oversees the Secret Service. The resignation came less than a day after lawmakers from both parties assailed Ms. Piersons leadership and said they feared for the lives of the president and others in the protection of the agency.
.In a statement, Mr. Johnson said that he had appointed Joseph Clancy, a former agent in charge of the Presidential Protective Division, to become the Secret Services acting director. Mr. Clancy was in charge of the presidential detail the night in November 2009 when Michaele and Tareq Salahi, then a married couple, managed to get past Secret Service checkpoints for President Obamas first state dinner without being on the guest list.
.Mr. Obama called Ms. Pierson after her decision to thank her for her service to the agency and the country, said Josh Earnest, the presidents press secretary. The president is deeply appreciative of her service.
.Mr. Johnson said that he was directing his deputy at the Department of Homeland Security to oversee an internal review of the Sept. 19 incident in which an intruder jumped over the fence around the White House and made it deep inside the mansion.
.And bowing to growing demands for an outside inquiry by Democratic and Republican members of Congress, Mr. Johnson said that he would appoint a distinguished panel of independent experts to report recommendations to him by Dec. 15.
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