The U.S. Secret Service has become “the face of incompetence,” House Oversight Chair James Comer told then-U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle as she testified Monday before his committee.

The day did not go well for Cheatle, who offered no good explanation as to how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to out-maneuver the Secret Service, a $3 billion agency, and plant himself and his father’s AR-15 on a rooftop within range of Donald Trump as the former president spoke at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13.

Cheatle admitted that the failed assassination attempt, which wounded the GOP nominee and left Trump supporter Corey Comperatore dead and two other rally attendees seriously injured, was “the most significant operational failure in the Secret Service for decades.”

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