While she didn't share any information Americans don't already have access to, her July 22nd testimony to the House Oversight Committee was still informative.

She was sworn in, and she perjured herself. Her statement stands in contradiction to her answers to questions. She promised to be transparent. She was not.

She could not answer the first question, whether or not there was a Secret Service agent on the roof where the suspected shooter was "bear crawling." Nine days after the biggest security breach in the history of the Secret Service since RFK, she still will not, or was not allowed, to answer the simplest of questions.

She would not tell us which other government agencies were present, and in what capacities, on July 13 in Butler, PA.

Words matter. Cheatle explained how a "suspicious" person does not directly, or always, constitute a "threat" to a Secret Service protectee.  Two decades of DHS harping on "See Something, Say Something" was well-practiced by dozens of witnesses at the Butler County Fairgrounds on July 13th, but apparently the advice only applies to the proles. Who can blame Members of Congress – who with obscene bipartisan enthusiasm expanded the power of the DHS for the past twenty plus years – for assuming that this guidance also applied to highly paid and trained government professionals.

The lack of intercommunication between all of the security components in the planning and execution of the rally on July 13th is concerning.  From Cheatle's written statement:

The Secret Service constructed a security plan which consisted of three concentric rings of protection – the inner, middle, and outer perimeter – which are protected by Secret Service personnel in conjunction with our law enforcement partners.