美國特勤局四名高官被調任大綱

Four senior officials in the U.S. Secret Service have been reassigned in response to a series of security lapses that embarrassed the agency responsible for protecting President Barack Obama and his family.

Acting Director Joseph Clancy issued a statement Wednesday announcing that the agency's assistant directors for investigations, protective operations, technology and public affairs were being removed from their posts.

Clancy said he made the decision based on an independent report issued last December that described the agency as starved for leadership.

The report was drafted after an Army veteran carrying a knife climbed over the White House fence back in September and ran inside the presidential mansion before he was finally subdued. An internal review concluded that bad training, poor staffing and a series of missteps contributed to the breach.

The incident led to the resignation of then-director Julia Pierson.美國特勤局四名高官被調任。此前，白宮安全保衛工作出現一系列疏漏，負責保衛奧巴馬總統及家人的特勤局倍感難堪。

特勤局代局長克蘭西星期三發表聲明，宣佈負責調查、保衛行動以及技術和公共事務的助理局長被解職。

克蘭西說，他是根據去年12月的一項獨立報告作出這個決定的。那個報告認爲特勤局急需領導。

報告起草前，一名陸軍退伍軍人去年9月持刀攀越白宮圍欄，並跑進總統官邸，後被制服。內部審議認爲，訓練差，人手少以及連續失誤等原因與這次事故有關。

事件導致當時的局長朱利亞•皮爾森辭職。