A high-ranking official within the U.S. Secret Service has reportedly been asked to retire and will soon end his tenure with the agency.
Fox News on Tuesday identified the individual as Office of Protective Operations Assistant Director Michael Plati.
He has over 26 years of federal law enforcement and homeland security experience, according to his bio on the U.S. Secret Service’s website.
The Fox article continued:
The decision is reportedly linked with the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania — a security failure that has sent shock waves through all levels of the agency.
The USSS is preparing to brief Congress in the coming days about lessons learned from the July 13 attempt on Trump’s life. Plati was asked to step down by senior leadership, including Acting Director Ronald Rowe.
Following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, Rowe refused while speaking during a Senate hearing to say who denied requests by Trump’s security detail over the past two years, Breitbart News reported on July 31.
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