The director of the United States Secret ServiceKimberly Cheatle, has acknowledged before Congress that the assassination attempt Former President Donald Trump was accused the “biggest operational failure” of the agency “in decades.”

In an ongoing hearing before a House committee, Cheatle has assumed “full responsibility” of the lapse in “security” of his agency and has assured that they are cooperating with the ongoing investigations into the attack.

“The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13 is the largest operational failure by the Secret Service in decades,” Cheatle said in her opening remarks before the committee, to which she had been summoned by the Republicans who control the House of Representatives.

The Republican Opposition has called for Cheatle’s resignation, at the head of the agency in charge of Trump’s security.

Trump was shot in the ear while participating in a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 by a shooter who had climbed onto a roof about 150 yards from the former president, although outside the security perimeter.

Witnesses had warned two minutes before the shots of the suspicious presence of the shooter, a 20-year-old man whose motives are still unknown, who was shot dead by Secret Service agents.

During the hearing, Republicans have protested Cheatle’s refusal to answer most of their questions, claiming that There are several ongoing investigations with which the Secret Service is collaborating to clarify what went wrong in the operation.