Report finds holes and delays in how Secret Service updates its protection policy
The agency reviewed 83 incidents from 2015 to 2025 and updated policies after only 25, the report said.
- On Thursday, a Government Accountability Office report revealed the Secret Service failed to update protection policies or document reasons for inaction regarding 83 security incidents occurring between 2015 and 2025.
- The agency updated protection policies in response to only 25 of those incidents, while also failing to update eight of 22 policies within the required four-year timeframe.
- Past incidents include a drone contacting President Barack Obama's motorcade in 2015, another flown 200 feet over a Bernie Sanders rally, and the 11-minute drone flight in Butler, Pennsylvania, targeting Donald Trump.
- Nathan Tranquilli, acting director of the Government Accountability Office, called the drone incidents a "compelling example" of how missing information has been relevant to subsequent attacks.
- The Department of Homeland Security agreed to all three report recommendations, planning to implement changes including a requirement to document rationale whenever security incidents do not warrant policy updates.
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Report finds holes and delays in how Secret Service updates its protec
The U.S. Secret Service dealt with several drone-related incidents without adjusting its protection policies or documenting why it didn’t, according to a government report released Thursday. That information may have helped illustrate the emerging threat of civilian
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Report finds holes and delays in how Secret Service updates its protection policy
A government report finds that the U.S. Secret Service faced several drone-related incidents without updating its protection policies or documenting reasons it didn't.
Secret Service ignored drone incidents for years. Then came the Trump shooting
A new GAO report says the Secret Service ignored dozens of security incidents, including repeated drone sightings near presidents and candidates, because agency policy never required staffers to explain why they weren't making changes.
Report Reveals Secret Service Protection Policy Gaps, Delays
NewsFinale NewsFinale Journal The U.S. Secret Service encountered multiple drone-related security incidents but did not revise its protective policies or record its reasons for leaving them unchanged, according to a government report released Thursday. Investigators suggested that such documentation could have helped clarify the growing risk posed by civilian drones before one was involved in the 2024 assassination […]
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