(CNN) — Senior-level personnel changes at the US Secret Service as well as the creation of new divisions are underway as the agency works to resolve security breakdowns that preceded the two attempts on former President Donald Trump’s life this summer. Acting Director Ron Rowe laid out his plan in an agencywide email earlier this week even as his own days as head of the agency may be coming to an end. Typically, incoming presidents choose their own Secret Service director, and it’s hard to know whether Vice President Kamala Harris or Trump would retain Rowe.
“I can’t think about what’s going to happen to me,” Rowe said in a telephone interview on Friday. “I am trying to be the best leader I can be for the Secret Service at this moment in time, and what I am focused on right now is making sure that I’m advocating for our people that are out there doing the mission.” In the email reviewed by CNN, Rowe called the moves part of his effort to enact a “paradigm shift that will allow us to enhance our resources” and to streamline operations.
“I’m trying to get programs more closely aligned with the mission, getting them out to the field so that they are directly supporting enforcement operations, major criminal investigations and, of course, protective operations,” Rowe told CNN. Rowe’s email lists multiple new assistant directors and deputy assistant directors — filling gaps left by several top leaders who have elected to retire in recent months. T.
