Secret Service head says changes underway after 'failures' at Trump's Pennsylvania rally

Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The Secret Service's acting director said Friday the agency is instituting a "paradigm shift" in how it carries out its mission in the wake of its own "failures" during the July 13 assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

During an update on the status of the agency's internal probe of the incident at a campaign rally in the Butler, Pa., Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe said the preliminary results of its "mission assurance investigation" have confirmed that the agency's own failures allowed a would-be assassin to fire off shots at Trump from a nearby rooftop.

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