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The director of the U.S. Secret Service said Sunday ongoing political division has created a “constantly” evolving threat environment ahead of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, but there is no credible threat to either event ahead of their scheduled dates over the next month.Kimberly Cheatle, who heads the Secret Service , said the agency had been preparing for both events for a year and a half.
“I think that the environment that we’re dealing with today is certainly different than it was four years ago. I’m sure we’ll see an evolution in the next four years as well,” Cheatle told ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, adding extreme political polarization had definitely played into the shift. “But it is definitely something that we take into consideration.
CNN reported this weekend that the Milwaukee Police Department and other federal agencies had prepared a threat assessment ahead of the RNC, which found the eventfor extremists to sow discord ahead of the November election. But the document also noted there was no credible threat ahead of the convention and was rather a summary of potential tactics that could be leveraged by bad actors.
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