WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: (L-R) Kevin McAleenan of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Michael Fisher, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, Randolph Alles, of the Customs and Border Protection's Office and James Dinkins, of Homeland Security Investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, participte in a Senate Homeland ecurity hearing on Capitol Hill, April 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on border security as some are calling for an overhaul of immigration laws that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to remain permanently in the U.S. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Another day, another firing. The director of the Secret Service is out.
Multiple senior administration officials tell CNN that POTUS told chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to fire US Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles, a conversation that took place a week before last. Alles remains in the position as of now but has been asked to leave.
The Secret Service director reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned on Sunday amid growing pressure from the President. The director oversees the Secret Service’s work on both protection and investigations.
“There is a near-systematic purge happening at the nation’s second-largest national security agency,” one senior administration official says.
