RNC Accuses Secret Service of Failing to Address Milwaukee Convention Security Concerns

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has accused the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) of failing to address security issues ahead of the party’s convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this summer where planned protests are set to take place. In a letter sent to Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle on Thursday, RNC counsel Todd Steggerda raised concerns over what he said was a “rapidly deteriorating” security climate at the July convention. The RNC counsel again called on officials to move a designated protest area, near the convention’s security perimeter around the Fiserv Forum, just one block over. Despite the RNC’s “good faith efforts” over the last four weeks to work with the Secret Service to resolve the “critical flaw with the Security Perimeter” at the convention, the committee’s “grave concerns about the unacceptable risk to public safety remain unaddressed,” Mr. Steggerda wrote....