Secret Service director: Agents did ‘great job’ in WHCA dinner shooting response

Secret Service Director Sean Curran on Tuesday said the agents who responded to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner did a “great job” reacting to the unexpected intruder.

“My agents did a great job,” Curran told CBS News’s Nikole Killion, while appearing for a briefing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Killion also asked if the dinner should become a national security or a national special security event going forward.

Curran said, “I’ll tell you what. We’ll assess every event and see if that deserves the designation. But we’ll do it by case-by-case basis.”

The Secret Service director said there was a classified “reason” the security perimeter surrounding the Washington Hilton was not further out.

Killion did not share further details on the protocol around securing the hotel’s entry and exit points, but said he’d come back to the Hill for additional briefings.

Investigators say the alleged shooter had a manifesto that touted anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric.

Cole Allen , 31, was apprehended after allegedly firing shots at the Washington Hilton on Saturday and appeared in court on Monday for arraignment.

Allen has been charged with one count of attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony in addition to discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.

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