House Oversight Committee issues subpoena for Secret Service director's testimony

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday issued a subpoena for the Secret Service director to testify next week on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. 

The committee had written to agency Director Kimberly Cheatle on Tuesday to request a voluntary hearing July 22, which the Secret Service originally said she would attend. However, after Department of Homeland Security officials intervened in scheduling, the director's attendance was called into question, House Oversight Chairman James Comer said in a letter released alongside the subpoena. 

"In addition, since DHS’s intervention, there have been no meaningful updates or information shared with the Committee," Comer wrote. "The lack of transparency and failure to cooperate with the Committee on this pressing matter by both DHS and the Secret Service further calls into question your ability to lead the Secret Service and necessitates the attached subpoena compelling your appearance before the Oversight Committee."

The subpoena commands Cheatle to appear for the previously scheduled July 22 hearing.

You can read Comer's letter and subpoena below: 

The Secret Service and FBI are also set to brief the House on Monday on the assassination attempt and the ongoing investigation into the security failures and the shooter. That briefing had already been delayed by a one day when the DHS took over communications between the House Oversight Committee and the Secret Service.