US Secret Service chief quits due to security lapses

US 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. High-ranking lawmakers from both parties had urged her to step down after her poorly received testimony to Congress a day earlier - and revelations 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.



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