Secret Service Must Shift From Reactive to Readiness Model: Acting Director

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said in a Sept. 16 update on the investigation into the second alleged assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that the Secret Service will adopt a different approach to protecting current and former presidents. At a Sept. 16 press conference, Rowe said that after the assassination attempt on the Republican presidential candidate during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, he “ordered a paradigm shift.” “The Secret Service’s protective methodologies work, and they are sound, and we saw that yesterday,” Rowe said. “But the way we are positioned right now in this dynamic threat environment, it has given me guidance to say, you know what, we need to look at what our protective methodology is. We need to get out of a reactive model and get to a readiness model.”...