REPORT: Multiple Senior Secret Service Officials Set To Resign Over July 13 Security Failures

Several high-ranking Secret Service agents are set to step down ahead of the public release of findings from an internal investigation that was launched in the wake of the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that killed retired firefighter Corey Comperatore and wounded three, including Trump.

According to a report from the Washington Post quoting two anonymous sources, the findings will heavily criticize the agency for failing to communicate with local law enforcement, as well as their failure to secure the rooftop from which deceased gunman Thomas Matthew-Crooks fired from. Local law enforcement have heavily criticized the Secret Service in the weeks following the shooting, as the agency reportedly skipped a briefing earlier in the week and were not synced up with local law enforcement radios.

A number of resignations have already taken place ahead of the report's release. Mike Plati, the assistant director of the Office of Protective Operations, officially retired on Friday, according to a statement from the Secret Service.

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John Buckley, a senior official responsible for public event security, is also set to retire soon, according to an internal Secret Service email. In addition, a senior agent from the Pittsburgh field office, which was responsible for security in Butler County, PA, will also soon be stepping aside, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

The agents who were part of Trump's protective detail on the day of the shooting have been placed on administrative leave, while former Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle announced her resignation roughly a week after the assassination attempt.

Several independent and congressional investigations have been commissioned in the weeks following the attempt on the former president's life. Earlier this week, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) suggested that the internal investigation's findings will be damning.