The Biden administration declined to provide security for former President Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien for nearly a year despite behind-the-scenes pressure, according an exclusive Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, wrote two letters to President Biden over the past year requesting that the administration reinstate O’Brien’s Secret Service protective detail which ended in August of last year, The Journal reported.
“It is a dangerous precedent to set, to not extend a former National Security Advisor’s protective detail while there are active threats against his life, especially in a growing threat environment,” Turner wrote in a Jan. 30 letter.
In another letter from June 21, 2023, Turner wrote that “Ambassador O’Brien both needs and deserves a protective detail for his service to this country.”
The need for security for officials has been heightened in recent days following the assassination attempt on former President Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Posted by Bradford Betz
