US Secret Service has 'deep flaws', scathing report says

An independent panel reviewing the shooting at Donald Trump's rally calls for the agency to overhaul its leadership.

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An independent panel tasked with investigating the 13 July shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, released its findings on Thursday, and said the organisation had become "bureaucratic, complacent and static".

It called for an overhaul of its leadership in the 52-page report, and said a "number of specific failures and breakdowns" enabled the attack against the Republican presidential candidate.

The Secret Service has already acknowledged failures on its part, and its director resigned weeks after the shooting.

In a statement on Thursday, its acting director Ronald Rowe said the agency would carefully examine the new report.

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