The Secret Service’s failure to prevent the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is prompting calls to overhaul the troubled agency, including a fresh push to divorce it from the Department of Homeland Security.
The elite group of agents charged with protecting political leaders has long resented its placement in the behemoth department created after the 9/11 attacks. The security lapses at the July 13 campaign rally where Trump was injured provide the latest fuel for arguments against the arrangement.
“They don’t need to be part of a huge, unmanageable bureaucracy, which is what I would say describes the ...