via Zerohedge (At 10am Eastern)

In a move seemingly timed to ease the immediate pressure on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday night announced the formation of an independent review panel charged with examining the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which appeared to illuminate an astonishing degree of Secret Service incompetence.

The unusual Sunday night announcement came about 12 hours before Cheatle’s 10 am Monday appearance before the House Oversight Committee, which Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has touted as “must-watch TV,” telling CNN, “She’s got a lot to answer for. And those concerns are bipartisan.” Underscoring that notion, Oversight Committee member and Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle has already demanded that Cheatle resign…

Related: Senator Ron Johnson just confirmed in this interview that he believes multiple weapons and multiple shooters were involved in the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.

And the “ongoing investigation” dodge begins immediately.

Updated with this from Joel Mowbrat;

We’re only starting to dig into the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline. Everyone knows Kamala Harris is going to be under the microscope.

But key to the cover-up was Kim Cheatle. Look at her record (detailed below), and it’s clear she was hired to help conceal from the public Biden’s true condition.

No one has more direct access to — and intimate knowledge of — the President than his protection detail. Cheatle would know this, since she had served on both Joe and Jill Biden’s details during the Obama years.

THAT is why she was hired. The Biden family needed someone they could trust in charge of the Secret Service.

@stevennelson10 reported that Jill Biden and top advisor Anthony Bernal pushed hard for Cheatle’s hiring. His excellent @nypost story then implied that it was for some DEI purpose.

But this misses the point about how the Bidens have operated, prioritizing secrecy regarding @POTUS’s true condition over pretty much everything else. That’s why even the White House residence staff was kept at arm’s length.

It also helps explain what @SusanCrabtree had reported — and initially denied by the Secret Service — that the agency had diverted resources and manpower to a Jill Biden event that same day.

This inexplicable decision was just confirmed by whistleblowers through @EMPOWR_us, whom Senator @ChuckGrassley cited in a letter this weekend.

In short, the USSS assigned only 3 Secret Service post standers to Trump’s rally in Butler, PA, compared to 12 post standers for Jill Biden’s (much, much smaller) dinner event an hour away in Pittsburgh.

Given the known threats to Trump — even aside from the apparently credible threat from Iran — this disparity only makes sense thru the prism of Cheatle’s bias from a close, personal bond with the Bidens.

The Bidens forged such a bond with @POTUS’s personal doctor, Dr. Kevin O’Connor. Per terrific reporting by @SchreckReports, O’Connor became close, personal friends with the Bidens during the Obama administration, and he even pursued business together with James Biden.

Everyone serious understands that Dr. O’Connor’s rosy pronouncements about Biden’s health were central to the cover-up of Biden’s rapidly detoriating condition.

Now, it is time to ask these questions about what Cheatle was expected to help cover up. Congress should be asking these questions, though if the past week is any indication, it will probably be @dbongino and/or @SusanCrabtree getting those answers first.

We certainly need (and deserve) answers regarding Cheatle’s cozy relationship with the Bidens — especially to what extent hiring her for covering up Biden’s cognitive decline helped lead to the assassination attempt on July 13.

UPDATE 2: After a contentious hearing in which Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle failed to answer some of the most basic questions surrounding the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump on July 13, the House Oversight Committee called on Cheatle to resign.