Secret Service chief quits due to security lapses
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson abruptly resigned Wednesday in the face of multiple revelations of security breaches, bumbling in her agency and rapidly eroding confidence that the president and his family were being kept safe.
President Barack Obama "concluded new leadership of that agency was required," said spokesman Josh Earnest.
High-ranking lawmakers from both parties had urged her to step down after her poorly received testimony to Congress a day earlier — and revelation of yet another security problem: Obama had shared an elevator in Atlanta last month with an armed guard who was not authorized to be around him.
It doesn't sound like anybody was trying to talk her out of it. The Secret Service is part of the Treasury as I recall. I wonder who there was responsible for keeping an eye on Pierson.