Assas­si­na­tion attempt: Secret Ser­vice will not give ‘real-time updates’ on dis­ci­pli­nary action

Act­ing Secret Ser­vice Direc­tor Ronald Rowe vowed on Fri­day to pro­vide “high-lev­el” infor­ma­tion on any dis­ci­pli­nary action he takes against agency employ­ees over the assas­si­na­tion attempt on for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.
Rowe said, how­ev­er, that he would not give “real-time updates” because of the inter­nal nature of employ­ee mat­ters.
Rowe’s remarks came as part of the first press con­fer­ence the Secret Ser­vice has held on the shoot­ing on July 13 that left one dead, two seri­ous­ly injured, and Trump with a minor injury.
The press con­fer­ence marked an effort by Rowe to be trans­par­ent with the pub­lic after for­mer Direc­tor Kim­ber­ly Chea­tle faced wide­spread crit­i­cism over her refusal to answer cer­tain ques­tions on the secu­ri­ty fail­ures that led to the assas­si­na­tion attempt. Chea­tle resigned less …