The agency lacks leadership and proper training.
The No. 2 in command — one of the only senior leaders left after a series of scandals and mistakes led to major bloodletting — needs to go.
And the new director needs to be somebody from outside the agency.
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In fact, Chaffetz, whose new post gives him broad power to investigate wide swaths of the federal government, plans to make Secret Service reform the topic of one of his first hearings.
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The cot might be more of a collector’s item anyway. When Chaffetz first came to Washington in 2009, he made news by sleeping in his office to save money.
Six years later and now a committee chairman, Chaffetz is still throwing down the cot at night and showering in the House gym in the morning. Perhaps proving that even life nearer the top of the Washington food chain still isn’t all that glamorous.
“Look it’s an honor and privilege to serve here,” he said. “But yeah, when your wife and kids are back (a) couple thousand miles away and you turn off that light at night and you’re all there by yourself sleeping in a closet, eh, maybe not the best.”
CNN’s Curt Devine contributed to this report.
