Trump assas­si­na­tion attempt task force begins inves­ti­ga­tion with slew of let­ters to fed­er­al agen­cies

The House pan­el tasked with inves­ti­gat­ing the assas­si­na­tion attempt on for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is begin­ning its work in earnest with a slew of let­ters sent to fed­er­al agen­cies request­ing doc­u­ments and oth­er infor­ma­tion regard­ing secu­ri­ty fail­ures dur­ing the Penn­syl­va­nia cam­paign ral­ly last month. 
The task force, which was estab­lished short­ly after the assas­si­na­tion attempt, sent let­ters to Attor­ney Gen­er­al Mer­rick Gar­land, FBI Direc­tor Christo­pher Wray, Home­land Secu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Ale­jan­dro May­orkas, and act­ing Secret Ser­vice Direc­tor Ronald Rowe Jr. request­ing doc­u­ments and brief­in­gs from the agen­cies regard­ing the shoot­ing. The let­ters seek to estab­lish the task force as the pri­ma­ry inves­tiga­tive body even as a hand­ful of House com­mit­tees have opened their own inquiries into the mat­ter.
The let­ters cite H.R. 1367, whi …